Wealth and Poverty
49 aphorisms · 5 comments
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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/83wmvvdq · submitted 1997
Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs painting.
tiny.ag/g42cvkx0 · submitted 1997
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
John D. Rockefeller, in Vice and Virtue 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/oljxzymd · submitted 1997
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
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/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.
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/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/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/cybvcjri · submitted 1997
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he is buying.
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/frswba1z · submitted 1997
He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
tiny.ag/mnbumpv1 · submitted 1997
No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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.
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