“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.”
“It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.”
“Disagreements over money are the biggest cause of divorce. She waved her hand. Absolutely no problem. Your money is our money. My money is my money. She wrote away. I should make you negotiate with Phoebe.”
“Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything. Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.”
“Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.”
“There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor.”
“Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.”
“I love money. I love everything about it. I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of socks. Got a fur sink. An electric dog polisher. A gasoline powered turtleneck sweater. And, of course, I bought some dumb stuff, too.”
“People who want to make a million borrow a million first”
“A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.”
“Angel says that rich people don t like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn t pretty and perfect. You can t put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.”
“Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That s how rich I want to be.”
“The philosopher Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king. Said Aristippus, If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils. Said [author:Diogenes|3213618, Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king .”
“It s easy to say you don t care about money when you have plenty of it.”
“No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.”
“I guess money can t buy happiness if you shop in the wrong places.”
“When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.”