Wealth and Poverty
49 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/blmzpnir · submitted 1997
Figure it out. Work a lifetime to pay off a house. You finally own it and there's no one to live in it.
Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman, in Life and Death and Wealth and Poverty
tiny.ag/litmxv5j · submitted 1997
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
tiny.ag/cybvcjri · submitted 1997
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he is buying.
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/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/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/mnbumpv1 · submitted 1997
No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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.
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