Wealth and Poverty
49 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/cz2awrgd · submitted 1997
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
tiny.ag/bs6fhkpv · submitted 1997
Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
tiny.ag/cpyfxowq · submitted 1997
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, the other is getting it.
tiny.ag/71lergfc · submitted 1997
All I ask is a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
tiny.ag/mcsqdvek · submitted 1997
All this wheeling and dealing around, why, it isn't for money, it's for fun. Money's just the way we keep score.
tiny.ag/3lf8aeu1 · submitted 1997
Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn't expect to be paid back.
tiny.ag/wtukmszr · submitted 1997
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
tiny.ag/75ely1qd · submitted 1997
Money is like an arm or leg: use it or lose it.
tiny.ag/aeqa8ipy · submitted 1997
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
tiny.ag/rnfyuapf · submitted 1997
Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.
tiny.ag/mnbumpv1 · submitted 1997
No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
tiny.ag/y2yzkpwq · submitted 1997
It is odd, is it not, that a person's worth to society is measured by their wealth, when instead their wealth should be measured by their worth to society.
tiny.ag/upponmiq · submitted 1998
Some of the worst torments imaginable accompany wealth. And yet many a poor man is eager for preferment and dreams of somehow "improving" his estate. Where money and property are concerned, none but vagrants are wise.
Christopher Spranger, The Effort to Fall, in Wealth and Poverty
tiny.ag/ahgswdqq · submitted 1999
Alas, fortune does not change men; it unmasks them.
tiny.ag/fvxbdltz · submitted 1997
I'm opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
tiny.ag/gpgnitbr · submitted 1997
What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.
tiny.ag/qk0rnn17 · submitted 1997
When the rich make war it's the poor that die.
tiny.ag/c0gunnxj · submitted 1997
Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.
George Bernard Shaw, in Happiness and Misery and Wealth and Poverty
tiny.ag/japbfdwv · submitted 1997
Having nothing, nothing can he lose.
William Shakespeare, Henry VI, in Wealth and Poverty
tiny.ag/pipgvzvf · submitted 2011 by peter
Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.
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