Wealth and Poverty
49 aphorisms · 5 comments
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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/wlbk96e3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (238 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
J. Paul Getty, in Success and Failure and Wealth and Poverty
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/ac57f8tj · ★★☆☆ Fair (1168 ratings) · submitted 1997
In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.
tiny.ag/rnfyuapf · ★★☆☆ Fair (1047 ratings) · submitted 1997
Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.
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/zc2rts71 · ★★☆☆ Fair (3048 ratings) · 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/mnbumpv1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (838 ratings) · submitted 1997
No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
tiny.ag/y2yzkpwq · ★★☆☆ Fair (809 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is odd, is it not, that a person's worth to society is measured by their wealth, when instead their wealth should be measured by their worth to society.
tiny.ag/w4pbwier · ★★☆☆ Fair (1249 ratings) · submitted 1997
Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Love and Hate and Wealth and Poverty
tiny.ag/o4tugiae · ★★☆☆ Fair (274 ratings) · submitted 1997
While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.
tiny.ag/vm8pwhyr · ★★☆☆ Fair (854 ratings) · submitted 1998 by nthomas
The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong.
tiny.ag/huwbmgt6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (253 ratings) · submitted 1997
The easiest way to figure the cost of living is to take your income and add ten percent.
tiny.ag/2upsgaxe · ★★☆☆ Fair (256 ratings) · submitted 1997
The way to make a small fortune in the commodities market is to start with a large fortune.
tiny.ag/dv1lo7ef · ★★☆☆ Fair (332 ratings) · submitted 1997
Money is the root of all evil, and man needs roots.
tiny.ag/w3vp1iki · ★★☆☆ Fair (314 ratings) · submitted 1997
Money can't buy happiness -- but somehow it's more comfortable to cry in a Porsche than in a Lada.
tiny.ag/aqk8szqi · ★★☆☆ Fair (204 ratings) · submitted 1997
Change is good, but dollars are better.
tiny.ag/lhewzazm · ★★☆☆ Fair (256 ratings) · submitted 1997
I'd rather be rich than stupid.
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