Wealth and Poverty
49 aphorisms · 5 comments
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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/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/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/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/japbfdwv · ★★☆☆ Fair (833 ratings) · submitted 1997
Having nothing, nothing can he lose.
William Shakespeare, Henry VI, in Wealth and Poverty
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/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/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.
tiny.ag/t6cxlzxo · ★★☆☆ Fair (1006 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, that gives happiness.
Thomas Jefferson, in Wealth and Poverty and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/pipgvzvf · ★★☆☆ Fair (59 ratings) · 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/0spygbpd · ★★☆☆ Fair (535 ratings) · submitted 1997
Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It buys you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
tiny.ag/blmzpnir · ★★☆☆ Fair (1122 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (270 ratings) · submitted 1997
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he is buying.
tiny.ag/frswba1z · ★★☆☆ Fair (470 ratings) · submitted 1997
He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
tiny.ag/wtukmszr · ★★☆☆ Fair (1186 ratings) · 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/75ely1qd · ★★☆☆ Fair (2766 ratings) · submitted 1997
Money is like an arm or leg: use it or lose it.
tiny.ag/aeqa8ipy · ★★☆☆ Fair (845 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1047 ratings) · submitted 1997
Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.
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