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Funny Money Quotes

Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying then without money?

Ogden Nash

Joe Barbera's s always complaining that he can't get humor into cartoons anymore. Just do it. You've got your money. Why do they let the networks run their lives?

John Kricfalusi

If any man, out of an humour, should turn all his Estate into Money, and keep it dead, he would soon be sensible of Poverty growing upon him, whilst he is eating out of the quick stock.

Dudley North

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

John W. Foster

Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody.

Florenz Ziegfeld

Generally speaking, we get the joke. We know that the free market is nonsense. We know that the whole point is to game the system, to beat the market or at least find someone who will pay you a lot of money, 'cause they're convinced that there is a free lunch.

Ron Bloom

Musician jokes are a kind of joke that usually have to do with how much money someone makes. Musicians are always starving, so they're really mean to each other about who makes what.

Jackson Browne

25, 30 years ago, that meant something, they were making some money. And they were doing all sorts of comedy, screaming at the audience, basically crowd control. And then there was the whole urban comedy scene.

Bob Saget

Inspirational Money Quotes

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

Henry David Thoreau

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Money Quotes About Success

The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values.

Phyllis Schlafly

Anyone who wants to sell you overnight success or wealth is not interested in your success; they are interested in your money.

Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.

P. G. Wodehouse

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

John D. Rockefeller

I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success.

Christie Hefner

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

Thomas Wolfe

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

Nelson Mandela

If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.

Ray Kroc

More Money Quotes

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Henry Ward Beecher

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

George Bernard Shaw

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Benjamin Franklin

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

Henry Ward Beecher

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

Henry Ward Beecher

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

John F. Kennedy

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

Thomas Jefferson

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

George Bernard Shaw

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

Mohandas Gandhi

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

Benjamin Disraeli

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

Henry David Thoreau

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

Michel de Montaigne

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.

Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

George Santayana

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

Friedrich Schiller

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Miguel de Cervantes

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Benjamin Franklin

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.

George Bernard Shaw

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

Henry David Thoreau

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