Wealth and Poverty
49 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/cpyfxowq · ★★☆☆ Fair (542 ratings) · submitted 1997
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, the other is getting it.
tiny.ag/71lergfc · ★★☆☆ Fair (806 ratings) · submitted 1997
All I ask is a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
tiny.ag/mcsqdvek · ★★☆☆ Fair (257 ratings) · 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/i9vof3d6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (290 ratings) · submitted 1997
A budget is just a method of worrying before you spend money, as well as afterward.
tiny.ag/is34lohk · ★★☆☆ Fair (290 ratings) · submitted 1997
A banker will lend you money only if you can prove you don't need it.
tiny.ag/qy3grjnv · ★★☆☆ Fair (274 ratings) · submitted 1997
You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
tiny.ag/cz2awrgd · ★★☆☆ Fair (263 ratings) · submitted 1997
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
tiny.ag/bs6fhkpv · ★★☆☆ Fair (265 ratings) · submitted 1997
Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
tiny.ag/3lf8aeu1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (250 ratings) · submitted 1997
Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn't expect to be paid back.
tiny.ag/fvxbdltz · ★★☆☆ Fair (439 ratings) · submitted 1997
I'm opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
tiny.ag/ahgswdqq · ★★☆☆ Fair (1091 ratings) · submitted 1999
Alas, fortune does not change men; it unmasks them.
tiny.ag/qk0rnn17 · ★★☆☆ Fair (396 ratings) · submitted 1997
When the rich make war it's the poor that die.
tiny.ag/83wmvvdq · ★★☆☆ Fair (274 ratings) · submitted 1997
Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs painting.
tiny.ag/japbfdwv · ★★☆☆ Fair (833 ratings) · submitted 1997
Having nothing, nothing can he lose.
William Shakespeare, Henry VI, in Wealth and Poverty
tiny.ag/c0gunnxj · ★★☆☆ Fair (456 ratings) · submitted 1997
Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.
George Bernard Shaw, in Happiness and Misery and Wealth and Poverty
tiny.ag/gpgnitbr · ★★☆☆ Fair (358 ratings) · submitted 1997
What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.
tiny.ag/upponmiq · ★★☆☆ Fair (820 ratings) · 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/g42cvkx0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (272 ratings) · 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/azsgcja4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (915 ratings) · 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/litmxv5j · ★★☆☆ Fair (324 ratings) · 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.
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