Money often costs too much.
Wherever there is power there is age.
Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness, — whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statutes, or songs. I doubt not this was the meaning of Socrates, when he pronounced artists the only truly wise, as being actually, not apparently so.
One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature, and that their watches are slower than ours. In fact, the only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.
Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual.
Thought makes every thing fit for use.
The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in the world. Now that I’m old . . . I know it is.
Part of the beauty of me is that I’m very rich
I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.
All I ask is the chance to prove that money can’t make me happy.
You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
The best way you hurt rich people is by turning them into poor people.
Never spend your money before you have it.
I’ve been poor and I’ve been rich and rich is better.
Carpe per diem – seize the check.
It is easier to ask for money when you don’t need the money.
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.
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don’t have for something they don’t need.
There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
Money is something you have to make in case you don’t die.
