Wealth and Poverty
49 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/is34lohk · submitted 1997
A banker will lend you money only if you can prove you don't need it.
tiny.ag/qy3grjnv · submitted 1997
You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
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/75ely1qd · submitted 1997
Money is like an arm or leg: use it or lose it.
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/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/cpyfxowq · submitted 1997
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, the other is getting it.
tiny.ag/dgpjywem · submitted 1997
A young man with good health and a poor appetite can save up money.
tiny.ag/d3qjgzaa · submitted 1997
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
tiny.ag/fvxbdltz · submitted 1997
I'm opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
tiny.ag/qk0rnn17 · submitted 1997
When the rich make war it's the poor that die.
tiny.ag/ahgswdqq · submitted 1999
Alas, fortune does not change men; it unmasks them.
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/gpgnitbr · submitted 1997
What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.
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/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/83wmvvdq · submitted 1997
Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs painting.
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