****************************************************************** -> This file contains a selection of quotations about making, keeping, losing and using money which we hope will amuse and inform you. -> The file has been supplied as an integral part of YOUR-PLAN. This is a personal financial planning software package developed as a shareware package for use on a 'try-before-you-buy' basis by Invest-Tech Limited. For contact details, see end of this file. -> To view this file page-by-page, type "TYPE MONEY.TXT|MORE" To print this file, type "PRINT MONEY.TXT" (Press CTRL+BREAK to quit now) ***************************************************************** QUOTES ABOUT MONEY ================== ************************************************************** * We invite users to submit further quotes for inclusion * * in the next version of MONEY.TXT. * * * * MONEY.TXT is not copyright and we place it in the public * * domain. It can be freely copied PROVIDED that it is not * * altered in any way whatsoever and PROVIDED that no charge * * is made for the file. * ************************************************************** Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it - Henry Ford 1931 Money is like muck - not good unless spread - Francis Bacon, Essays XV, 1625 Money is like manure. If you spread it around, it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place, it stinks like hell - Clint Murchison Jnr Money is flat and meant to be piled up - Scottish proverb Money is like a sixth sense, without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five - Somerset Maugham Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons - Woody Allen Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy - Spike Milligan For the love of money is the root of all evil - Bible: I Timothy Lack of money is the root of all evil - George Bernard Shaw It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil, the want of money is so quite as truly - Samuel Butler A fool & his money are easily parted - Irish Proverb A fool and his money are soon parted. What I want to know is how they got together in the first place - BBC's Cyril Fletcher Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves - Proverb Easy come, easy go - Proverb Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust - Oliver Wendell Holms Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody - Agatha Christie Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money - Livy, History of Rome XXX, c.10 Without money, fame is dead - Irish Proverb The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any - Katherine Whitehorn You can be young without money but you can't be old without it - Tennessee Williams It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think that they can be happy without money - Albert Camus You don't seem to realise that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help. - Jean Kerr Within certain limits it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry - George Orwell Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not - John Kenneth Galbraith Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and sucessful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis - George Bernard Shaw Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety - J. K. Galbraith Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did - James Baldwin But then one is always excited by descriptions of money changing hands. It's much more fundamental than sex - Nigel Dennis Nothing links man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of cash - Walter Richard Sickert Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does - Jane Austen He that wants money, means, and content, is without three good friends - William Shakespeare For I don't care too much for money. For money can't buy me love - John Lennon I'm tired of Love: I'm still more tired of Rhyme. But money gives me pleasure all the Time - Hilaire Belloc No one would have remembered the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions. He had money as well - Margaret Thatcher Thirst after the drink and sorrow after the money - Irish proverb A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things - Bible: Ecclesiastes Clearly money has something to do with life - In fact, they've a lot in common, if you enquire: You can't put off being young until you retire - Philip Larkin Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life - Gottfried Reinhardt The trouble, Mr. Goldwyn is that you are only interested in art and I am only interested in money - George Bernard Shaw But it is pretty to see what money will do - Samuel Pepys Money doesn't talk, it swears - Bob Dylan I think money is on the way out - Anita Loos, 1956 How pleasant it is to have money - Arthur Hugh Clough I can't afford to waste my time making money - Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz If possible, honestly, if not, somehow, make money - Horace There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money - Samuel Johnson Put money in thy purse - William Shakespeare Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can - John Wesley Enrich yourself - Francois Guizot My boy...always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you - Damon Runyon Some people's money is merited, and other people's is inherited - Ogden Nash He married money and got a woman with it - Irish proverb Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your mind, and there you are - Dorothy Parker What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year - Samuel Butler What's a thousand dollars? Mere chicken feed. A poultry matter - Groucho Marx Do they allow tipping on the boat? Yes, sir. Then you won't need the ten cents I was going to give you - Groucho Marx Pieces of eight! - Robert Louis Stevenson I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year - William Makepeace Thackeray If you can actually count your money then you are not really a rich man - Paul Getty II After a certain point money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts - Aristotle Onassis All that good money going on a mere picture, when it might have been spent on something really useful, like a drinking fountain or a public lavatory - Aldous Huxley Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain - A. P. Herbert Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself - Italian Proverb My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man - Glenda Jackson A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it - Bob Hope It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit - Anatole France No man's credit is as good as his money - Sinner Sermons, 1926 God often pays debts without money - Irish proverb If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some - Benjamin Franklin Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with - Artemus Ward I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable - William Shakespeare We all know how the size of sums of money seems to vary in a remarkable way according as they are being paid in or paid out - Julian Huxley ****************************************************************** Remember, further quotes are most welcome. We would prefer good (funny/wise/clever/stupid/etc.) quotes by unknown's to poor quotes from well-known people. In addition to the quote itself, we would like the name of the originator, city/county and country and the year of utterance. Nothing 'dirty', libellous, untrue or scandalous, please. Send them to us on paper or, better still, in ASCII files. Many thanks and good luck with your money. Brian Flanagan ****************************************************************** Compiled by Invest-Tech Limited and placed in the public domain. Invest-Tech Limited 27 Ardmeen Park, Blackrock, Co. 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