Wealth and Poverty
49 aphorisms · 5 comments
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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.
tiny.ag/zc2rts71 · submitted 1997
One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need money the most, are the very ones that never have it.
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/w4pbwier · submitted 1997
Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Love and Hate and Wealth and Poverty
tiny.ag/wlbk96e3 · submitted 1997
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
J. Paul Getty, in Success and Failure and Wealth and Poverty
tiny.ag/azsgcja4 · submitted 1997
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Wealth and Poverty
tiny.ag/frswba1z · submitted 1997
He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
tiny.ag/cybvcjri · submitted 1997
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he is buying.
tiny.ag/w3vp1iki · submitted 1997
Money can't buy happiness -- but somehow it's more comfortable to cry in a Porsche than in a Lada.
tiny.ag/dv1lo7ef · submitted 1997
Money is the root of all evil, and man needs roots.
tiny.ag/nuplbfta · submitted 1997
The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters.
Jean-Paul Kauffmann, in Science and Religion and Wealth and Poverty
tiny.ag/ac57f8tj · submitted 1997
In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.
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/0spygbpd · submitted 1997
Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It buys you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
tiny.ag/t6cxlzxo · submitted 1997
It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, that gives happiness.
Thomas Jefferson, in Wealth and Poverty and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/rcl3mcj0 · submitted 1997
If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.
Bill Anderson, (from the song "Poor Folks"), in Wealth and Poverty
tiny.ag/oljxzymd · submitted 1997
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
tiny.ag/d3qjgzaa · submitted 1997
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
tiny.ag/dgpjywem · submitted 1997
A young man with good health and a poor appetite can save up money.
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