I hope these beautiful quotes and sayings about Father's Day will inspire you to honour your father and to celebrate fatherhood.
"Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name."
William Wordsworth
"The greatest gift I ever had
Came from God; I call him Dad!"
Unknown Author
"Before war, my father was ill and old. Today, my father is young and healthy."
Branislav Crncevic
"My father was often angry when I was most like him."
Lillian Hellman
"Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!"
Lydia M. Child
"Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other."
Joseph Joubert
“My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.”
Aldous Huxley quotes
"A fool son is a curse for his father."
Solomon
"One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters."
George Herbert
"The father who would taste the essence of his fatherhood must turn back from the plane of his experience, take with him the fruits of his journey and begin again beside his child, marching step by step over the same old road."
Angelo Patri
"A thriftless son is created by a scraping father."
Proverb
"My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century."
Antonio Porchia
"A father is his daughters first love and his sons first hero."
Unknown Author
"It is much easier to become a father than to be one."
Kent Nerburn
"Son assets continue father's assets."
Armenian Saying
"The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering-galleries, they are clearly heard at the end and by posterity."
Jean Paul Richter
"Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad."
Unknown Author
"I love my father as the stars - he's a bright shining example and a happy twinkling in my heart."
Terri Guillemets
"Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever."
Unknown Author
"My daddy, he was somewhere between God and John Wayne."
Hank Williams, Jr.
"Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life."
Tom Wolfe
"There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself."
John Gregory Brown
"You will find that if you really try to be a father, your child will meet you halfway."
Robert Brault
"As is the father, so is the son." / "Qualis Pater - Talis Filius."
Latin Proverb
"Why are men reluctant to become fathers? They aren't through being children."
Cindy Garner
“Any man can be a father, but it takes a special person to be a dad”
Proverb
"Fathers represent another way of looking at life - the possibility of an alternative dialogue."
Louise J. Kaplan
"I'm so ugly - My father carries around a picture of the kid who came with his wallet”
Rodney Dangerfield
"Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.'
Bill Cosby
"To commit any crime, except that of becoming father."
Emil Cioran
"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years."
Unknown Author
“Good fathers make good sons”
Old Saying
"My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass." "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys."
Harmon Killebrew
"A father is the only one who doesn't envy his son talents."
Goethe
"He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it."
Clarence Budington Kelland
"A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty."
Unknown Author
"Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land, And don't criticize What you can't understand”
Bob Dylan
"A father- a neighbour, a mother - a friend."
Proverb
"A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again."
Enid Bagnold
"A father carries pictures where his money used to be. "
Unknown Author
"Honour the woman who makes you father."
Pitagora
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Thursday, August 20, 2009
Eyes Quotes and Sayings
“The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body. “
Marcus Tulius Cicero
“The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions. “
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"“You never know how you look through other people's eyes.”
Unknown
“My eyes make pictures, when they are shut. “
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.”
Pablo Picasso
“What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross. “
Paracelsus
“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
Henri Bergson
“If you haven't cried, your eyes can't be beautiful. “
Sophia Loren
“When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes. “
Victor Hugo
“The eyes those silent tongues of love. “
Miguel de Cervantes
“Among the blind, the squinter rules”
Proverb
“Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision. “
Stevie Wonder
“The eyes are the amulets of the mind. “
William R. Alger
“An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.”
Martin Buber
“Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living? “
Bob Marley
“Some eyes threaten like a loaded and levelled pistol, and others are as insulting as hissing or kicking; some have no more expression than blueberries, while others are as deep as a well which you can fall into. “
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. “
Benjamin Franklin
“Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes”
Orson Scott Card
“It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture. “
Benjamin Franklin
“Seeing is not always believing.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Who has a daring eye tell downright truths and downright lies. “
Johann Kaspar Lavater
“Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.”
Heraclitus
“Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn! “
Victoria Abril
“Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say. “
Charles Caleb Colton
“How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god. “
Alan Watts
“The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. “
Bible
“Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life. “
Thomas Merton
“The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine”
Plato
“A beautiful eye makes silence eloquent, a kind eye makes contradiction an assent, an enraged eye makes beauty deformed. This little member gives life to every other part about us; and I believe the story of Argus implies no more than that the eye is in every part; that is to say, every other part would be mutilated were not its force represented more by the eye than even by itself. “
Joseph Addison
“There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.”
G. K. Chesterton
“Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others. “
Ellen DeGeneres
“It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away. “
Charles Dickens
“Who can blind lover's eyes? “
Virgil
“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. “
Henry Ford
“The harvest of a quiet eye, That broods and sleeps on his own heart. “
William Wordsworth
“TV is chewing gum for the eyes. “
Frank Lloyd Wright
“Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly. “
Richard Bach
“One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears. “
Zsa Zsa Gabor
“What the eye does not admire the heart does not desire. “
Proverb
“Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears”
Heraclitus of Ephesus
“No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.”
Jean Toomer
“And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes. “
James Joyce
“Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction, which they have not”
Plato
“Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. “
: Proverb
“You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.”
Stanislaw Lec
“Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line. “
Warren G. Bennis
“I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it. “
Laurence Olivier
“There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth. “
Friedrich Nietzsche
“The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages. “
Virginia Woolf
“The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes. “
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Those true eyes Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise The sweet soul shining through them”
Owen Meredith
“To draw you must close your eyes and sing. “
Pablo Picasso
“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. “
Mark Twain
“I will know him by his eyes. “
Taylor Caldwell
“Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream. “
Michel de Montaigne
“Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them. “
Christian Nestell Bovee
“The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title-deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions.”
Amos Bronson Alcott
“The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde. “
Robert Burton
“To see with the eyes of another, to hear with the ears of another, to feel with the heart of another. For the time being, this seems to me an admissible definition of what we call social feeling.”
Alfred Adler
“The eye is easily frightened. “
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one. “
George Herbert
“I shut my eyes in order to see. “
Paul Gauguin
“An animal will always look for a person's intentions by looking them right in the eyes. “
H. Powers
“Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes. “
Euripides
“Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. “
Thomas Carlyle
“A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. “
Gertrude Stein
“Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality. “
Nikos Kazantzakis
“Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive. “
Napoleon Hill
“Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes.”
George MacDonald
“No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes. “
Paulo Coelho
“Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook.”
: William Cullen Bryant
“A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind. “
William Shakespeare
“What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“The eyes are the mirror of the soul”
Yiddish Proverb
“She has an eye that could speak, though her tongue were silent. “
Aaron Hill
“The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands. “
Benjamin Franklin
“Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes. “
Jim Carrey
“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. “
Albert Einstein
“Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?”
Groucho Marx
“I prefer to see with closed eyes. “
Josef Albers
“Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground. “
Theodore Roosevelt
“What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye. “
Horace
“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again. “
Sylvia Plath
“We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts. “
William Hazlitt
“What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. “
Jewish Proverb
“In her eyes a thought grew sweeter and sweeter, deepening like the dawn, A mystical forewarning. “
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
“I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.”
Pope John XXIII
“When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.' “
Anton Chekhov
“The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them. “
Albert Pike
“To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears. “
Octavio Paz
“The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing. “
Publilius Syrus
“Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of the person. “
Stevie Wonder
“I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better.”
Mahalia Jackson
“Why watch someone kissing when people really close their eyes when they kiss? “
John Hughes
“Your optimistic eyes seem like paradise, to someone like...me.”
Depeche Mode
“When we go to play, you flip around and flash around and everything, and then they're not gonna see nothin' but what their eyes see. Forget about their ears. “
Jimi Hendrix
“A wanton eye is a messenger of an unchaste heart. “
Saint Aurelius Augustine
“The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person. “
Alexander Pope
“I close my eyes while driving and just sing along. I always open them again in time. “
Tyra Banks
“My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected.”
Unknown
“I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul. “
Max Beerbohm
“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. “
Albert Einstein
“The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The eye is the jewel of the body. “
Henry David Thoreau
“The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone. “
Audrey Hepburn
Marcus Tulius Cicero
“The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions. “
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"“You never know how you look through other people's eyes.”
Unknown
“My eyes make pictures, when they are shut. “
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.”
Pablo Picasso
“What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross. “
Paracelsus
“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
Henri Bergson
“If you haven't cried, your eyes can't be beautiful. “
Sophia Loren
“When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes. “
Victor Hugo
“The eyes those silent tongues of love. “
Miguel de Cervantes
“Among the blind, the squinter rules”
Proverb
“Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision. “
Stevie Wonder
“The eyes are the amulets of the mind. “
William R. Alger
“An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.”
Martin Buber
“Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living? “
Bob Marley
“Some eyes threaten like a loaded and levelled pistol, and others are as insulting as hissing or kicking; some have no more expression than blueberries, while others are as deep as a well which you can fall into. “
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. “
Benjamin Franklin
“Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes”
Orson Scott Card
“It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture. “
Benjamin Franklin
“Seeing is not always believing.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Who has a daring eye tell downright truths and downright lies. “
Johann Kaspar Lavater
“Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.”
Heraclitus
“Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn! “
Victoria Abril
“Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say. “
Charles Caleb Colton
“How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god. “
Alan Watts
“The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. “
Bible
“Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life. “
Thomas Merton
“The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine”
Plato
“A beautiful eye makes silence eloquent, a kind eye makes contradiction an assent, an enraged eye makes beauty deformed. This little member gives life to every other part about us; and I believe the story of Argus implies no more than that the eye is in every part; that is to say, every other part would be mutilated were not its force represented more by the eye than even by itself. “
Joseph Addison
“There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.”
G. K. Chesterton
“Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others. “
Ellen DeGeneres
“It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away. “
Charles Dickens
“Who can blind lover's eyes? “
Virgil
“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. “
Henry Ford
“The harvest of a quiet eye, That broods and sleeps on his own heart. “
William Wordsworth
“TV is chewing gum for the eyes. “
Frank Lloyd Wright
“Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly. “
Richard Bach
“One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears. “
Zsa Zsa Gabor
“What the eye does not admire the heart does not desire. “
Proverb
“Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears”
Heraclitus of Ephesus
“No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.”
Jean Toomer
“And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes. “
James Joyce
“Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction, which they have not”
Plato
“Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. “
: Proverb
“You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.”
Stanislaw Lec
“Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line. “
Warren G. Bennis
“I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it. “
Laurence Olivier
“There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth. “
Friedrich Nietzsche
“The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages. “
Virginia Woolf
“The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes. “
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Those true eyes Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise The sweet soul shining through them”
Owen Meredith
“To draw you must close your eyes and sing. “
Pablo Picasso
“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. “
Mark Twain
“I will know him by his eyes. “
Taylor Caldwell
“Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream. “
Michel de Montaigne
“Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them. “
Christian Nestell Bovee
“The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title-deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions.”
Amos Bronson Alcott
“The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde. “
Robert Burton
“To see with the eyes of another, to hear with the ears of another, to feel with the heart of another. For the time being, this seems to me an admissible definition of what we call social feeling.”
Alfred Adler
“The eye is easily frightened. “
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one. “
George Herbert
“I shut my eyes in order to see. “
Paul Gauguin
“An animal will always look for a person's intentions by looking them right in the eyes. “
H. Powers
“Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes. “
Euripides
“Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. “
Thomas Carlyle
“A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. “
Gertrude Stein
“Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality. “
Nikos Kazantzakis
“Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive. “
Napoleon Hill
“Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes.”
George MacDonald
“No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes. “
Paulo Coelho
“Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook.”
: William Cullen Bryant
“A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind. “
William Shakespeare
“What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“The eyes are the mirror of the soul”
Yiddish Proverb
“She has an eye that could speak, though her tongue were silent. “
Aaron Hill
“The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands. “
Benjamin Franklin
“Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes. “
Jim Carrey
“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. “
Albert Einstein
“Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?”
Groucho Marx
“I prefer to see with closed eyes. “
Josef Albers
“Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground. “
Theodore Roosevelt
“What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye. “
Horace
“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again. “
Sylvia Plath
“We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts. “
William Hazlitt
“What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. “
Jewish Proverb
“In her eyes a thought grew sweeter and sweeter, deepening like the dawn, A mystical forewarning. “
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
“I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.”
Pope John XXIII
“When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.' “
Anton Chekhov
“The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them. “
Albert Pike
“To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears. “
Octavio Paz
“The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing. “
Publilius Syrus
“Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of the person. “
Stevie Wonder
“I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better.”
Mahalia Jackson
“Why watch someone kissing when people really close their eyes when they kiss? “
John Hughes
“Your optimistic eyes seem like paradise, to someone like...me.”
Depeche Mode
“When we go to play, you flip around and flash around and everything, and then they're not gonna see nothin' but what their eyes see. Forget about their ears. “
Jimi Hendrix
“A wanton eye is a messenger of an unchaste heart. “
Saint Aurelius Augustine
“The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person. “
Alexander Pope
“I close my eyes while driving and just sing along. I always open them again in time. “
Tyra Banks
“My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected.”
Unknown
“I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul. “
Max Beerbohm
“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. “
Albert Einstein
“The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The eye is the jewel of the body. “
Henry David Thoreau
“The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone. “
Audrey Hepburn
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
LOVE MATCH saying , quotes , proverbs
“Love-matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.”
Countess of Blessington
" I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together."
Julia Roberts
"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly."
Sam Keen
"What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes..."
Elizabeth Barret Browning
“I love you smile at me, I love the way your hands reach out and hold me near....I believe this is heaven to no one else but me.”
Sarah McLachlan
“You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right, it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and it's good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.”
Keith Sweat
"Love is just a word until someone you meet gives it a proper meaning."
" I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you."
Unknown Author
“There's beauty in the silver singing river, There's beauty in the sunrise in the sky, But none of these and nothing else can match the beauty, That I remember in my true love's eyes”
Bob Dylan
" In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged."
Hans Nouwens
“You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry.”
"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
Robert Heinlein
“The best way to find your perfect match is to meet love halfway.”
"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
" Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart."
Kay Knudsen
"Love waits for one thing, the right moment."
“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.”
Oscar Wilde
"In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing."
Mignon McLaughlin
“Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won't make you cry”
"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition."
Alexander Smith
"In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person."
Margaret Anderson
“True love is like a pair of socks: you gotta have two and they've gotta match.”
“There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.”
"Paradise is always where love dwells."
Jean Paul F. Richter
“I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.”
Arthur Miller
Countess of Blessington
" I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together."
Julia Roberts
"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly."
Sam Keen
"What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes..."
Elizabeth Barret Browning
“I love you smile at me, I love the way your hands reach out and hold me near....I believe this is heaven to no one else but me.”
Sarah McLachlan
“You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right, it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and it's good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.”
Keith Sweat
"Love is just a word until someone you meet gives it a proper meaning."
" I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you."
Unknown Author
“There's beauty in the silver singing river, There's beauty in the sunrise in the sky, But none of these and nothing else can match the beauty, That I remember in my true love's eyes”
Bob Dylan
" In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged."
Hans Nouwens
“You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry.”
"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
Robert Heinlein
“The best way to find your perfect match is to meet love halfway.”
"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
" Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart."
Kay Knudsen
"Love waits for one thing, the right moment."
“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.”
Oscar Wilde
"In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing."
Mignon McLaughlin
“Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won't make you cry”
"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition."
Alexander Smith
"In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person."
Margaret Anderson
“True love is like a pair of socks: you gotta have two and they've gotta match.”
“There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.”
"Paradise is always where love dwells."
Jean Paul F. Richter
“I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.”
Arthur Miller
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Quotes and saying about cars
"Glorious, stirring sight! The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here today -- in next week tomorrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumped -- always somebody else's horizons! O bliss! O poop-poop! O my! O my! "
Kenneth Grahame
"I feel like I am diagonally parked in a parallel universe. "
Author Unknown
"Remember folks, street lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 mph. "
Jim Samuels
"You can't see anything from a car; you've got to get out of the goddamn contraption and walk, better yet crawl, on hands and knees, over the sandstone and through the thornbrush and cactus. When traces of blood begin to mark your trail, you'll see something, maybe. "
Edward Abbey
"Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams. "
Mary Ellen Kelly
"The automobile has not merely taken over the street, it has dissolved the living tissue of the city. Its appetite for space is absolutely insatiable; moving and parked, it devours urban land, leaving the buildings as mere islands of habitable space in a sea of dangerous and ugly traffic. "
James Marston Fitch
"The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called ''significant literature'' will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods as are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and automobiles. "
Raymond Chandler
"What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths." J. G. Ballard
"For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt. "
Edith Mendel Stern
"Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead. "
Mac McCleary
"On the other hand, the Bible contains much that is relevant today, like Noah taking 40 days to find a place to park. "
Curtis McDougall
"A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. "
Peter De Vries
"We are not proving ourselves spiritually worthy of our material progress. We have not been neighborly, courteous, and kind upon the highway. Our lack of decency toward our fellow men is a definite black mark against us. "
Cary T. Grayson
"The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Walking isn't a lost art - one must, by some means, get to the garage. "
Evan Esar
"The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it. "
Dudley Moore
"The car has become... an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete. "
Marshall McLuhan
"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. "
H.G. Wells
"Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated. "
Jean Baudrillard
"The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same. "
Charles M. Allen
"Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes! "
Dr. Paul MacCready, Jr.
"Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. "
Judith Viorst
"Take most people, they're crazy about cars. They worry if they get a little scratch on them, and they're always talking about how many miles they get to a gallon, and if they get a brand-new car already they start thinking about trading it in for one that's even newer. I don't even like old cars. I mean they don't even interest me. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake. "
J.D. Salinger
"The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith. " Bertrand Russell
"Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. "
Albert Einstein
"What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile; otherwise can you imagine the awful screeching? "
Samuel Hoffenstein
"A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. "
American Proverb
"I represent what is left of a vanishing race, and that is the pedestrian.... That I am still able to be here, I owe to a keen eye and a nimble pair of legs. But I know they'll get me someday. "
Will Rogers
"Americans are broad-minded people. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater, and even a newspaperman, but if a man doesn't drive, there is something wrong with him. "
Art Buchwald
"The elderly don't drive that badly; they're just the only ones with time to do the speed limit. "
Jason Love
"To relive the relationship between owner and slave we can consider how we treat our cars and dogs -- a dog exercising a somewhat similar leverage on our mercies and an automobile being comparable in value to a slave in those days. "
Edward Hoagland
"When buying a used car, punch the buttons on the radio. If all the stations are rock and roll, there's a good chance the transmission is shot. ~
"
Larry Lujack
"A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system. "
Jean Cocteau
"Driving a brand new car feels like driving around in an open billfold with the dollars flapping by your ears as they fly out the window. "
Grey Livingston
"We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poorhouse in an automobile. '
Will Rogers
"The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man. "
Marshall McLuhan
"The shortest distance between two points is under construction. "
Noelie Altito
"The longest journey begins with a single step, not with a turn of the ignition key. "
Edward Abbey
"Automobiles are not ferocious.... it is man who is to be feared. "
Robbins B. Stoeckel
"Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain -- at least in a poor country like Russia -- and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect. "
Leon Trotsky
"Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not. "
John Kenneth Galbraith
"The car has become a secular sanctuary for the individual, his shrine to the self, his mobile Walden Pond. "
Edward McDonagh
"Self-determination, the autonomy of the individual, asserts itself in the right to race his automobile, to handle his power tools, to buy a gun, to communicate to mass audiences his opinion, no matter how ignorant, how aggressive, it may be." Herbert Marcuse
"You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive. "
Author Unknown
Kenneth Grahame
"I feel like I am diagonally parked in a parallel universe. "
Author Unknown
"Remember folks, street lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 mph. "
Jim Samuels
"You can't see anything from a car; you've got to get out of the goddamn contraption and walk, better yet crawl, on hands and knees, over the sandstone and through the thornbrush and cactus. When traces of blood begin to mark your trail, you'll see something, maybe. "
Edward Abbey
"Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams. "
Mary Ellen Kelly
"The automobile has not merely taken over the street, it has dissolved the living tissue of the city. Its appetite for space is absolutely insatiable; moving and parked, it devours urban land, leaving the buildings as mere islands of habitable space in a sea of dangerous and ugly traffic. "
James Marston Fitch
"The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called ''significant literature'' will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods as are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and automobiles. "
Raymond Chandler
"What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths." J. G. Ballard
"For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt. "
Edith Mendel Stern
"Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead. "
Mac McCleary
"On the other hand, the Bible contains much that is relevant today, like Noah taking 40 days to find a place to park. "
Curtis McDougall
"A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. "
Peter De Vries
"We are not proving ourselves spiritually worthy of our material progress. We have not been neighborly, courteous, and kind upon the highway. Our lack of decency toward our fellow men is a definite black mark against us. "
Cary T. Grayson
"The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Walking isn't a lost art - one must, by some means, get to the garage. "
Evan Esar
"The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it. "
Dudley Moore
"The car has become... an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete. "
Marshall McLuhan
"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. "
H.G. Wells
"Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated. "
Jean Baudrillard
"The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same. "
Charles M. Allen
"Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes! "
Dr. Paul MacCready, Jr.
"Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. "
Judith Viorst
"Take most people, they're crazy about cars. They worry if they get a little scratch on them, and they're always talking about how many miles they get to a gallon, and if they get a brand-new car already they start thinking about trading it in for one that's even newer. I don't even like old cars. I mean they don't even interest me. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake. "
J.D. Salinger
"The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith. " Bertrand Russell
"Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. "
Albert Einstein
"What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile; otherwise can you imagine the awful screeching? "
Samuel Hoffenstein
"A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. "
American Proverb
"I represent what is left of a vanishing race, and that is the pedestrian.... That I am still able to be here, I owe to a keen eye and a nimble pair of legs. But I know they'll get me someday. "
Will Rogers
"Americans are broad-minded people. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater, and even a newspaperman, but if a man doesn't drive, there is something wrong with him. "
Art Buchwald
"The elderly don't drive that badly; they're just the only ones with time to do the speed limit. "
Jason Love
"To relive the relationship between owner and slave we can consider how we treat our cars and dogs -- a dog exercising a somewhat similar leverage on our mercies and an automobile being comparable in value to a slave in those days. "
Edward Hoagland
"When buying a used car, punch the buttons on the radio. If all the stations are rock and roll, there's a good chance the transmission is shot. ~
"
Larry Lujack
"A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system. "
Jean Cocteau
"Driving a brand new car feels like driving around in an open billfold with the dollars flapping by your ears as they fly out the window. "
Grey Livingston
"We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poorhouse in an automobile. '
Will Rogers
"The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man. "
Marshall McLuhan
"The shortest distance between two points is under construction. "
Noelie Altito
"The longest journey begins with a single step, not with a turn of the ignition key. "
Edward Abbey
"Automobiles are not ferocious.... it is man who is to be feared. "
Robbins B. Stoeckel
"Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain -- at least in a poor country like Russia -- and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect. "
Leon Trotsky
"Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not. "
John Kenneth Galbraith
"The car has become a secular sanctuary for the individual, his shrine to the self, his mobile Walden Pond. "
Edward McDonagh
"Self-determination, the autonomy of the individual, asserts itself in the right to race his automobile, to handle his power tools, to buy a gun, to communicate to mass audiences his opinion, no matter how ignorant, how aggressive, it may be." Herbert Marcuse
"You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive. "
Author Unknown
Monday, March 9, 2009
Saying , quotes , proverbs about money
"Money for me has only one sound: liberty."
Gabrielle Chanel
"Nihil tam munitum quod non expugnari pecunia possit." / " No fort is so strong that it cannot be taken with money."
Cicero
"Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet."
Henry James
"Money is something you have to make in case you don’t die. " Max Asnas
"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to. "
Dorothy Parker
"I once met an economist who believed that everything was fungible for money, so I suggested he enclose himself in a large bell-jar with as much money as he wanted and see how long he lasted. "
Amory Lovins
"Money does not pay for anything, never has, never will. It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services. "
Albert Jay Nock
"I'm tired of Love: I'm still more tired of Rhyme.
But Money gives me pleasure all the time."
Hilaire Belloc
"In the old days a man who saved money was a miser; nowadays he's a wonder. "
Unknown Author
"Money isn't everything. It's just most everything."
Nica Clark
"Money don't bring Hapiness."
Romanian Proverb
"Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop. "
Gertrude Stein
"Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness. "
Henrik Ibsen
"More people are bribed by their own money than anybody else's."
Jonathan Daniels
"How quickly nature falls into revolt
When gold becomes her object!
For this the foolish over-careful fathers
Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with care,
Their bones with industry."
William Shakespeare
"Money is power, & you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it."
Russell H. Conwell, Temple Univ, 1877
"In societies of low civilization, there is no money."
Herbert Spencer
"Money is only good for a weekday, a holiday, and a rainy day."
Russian Proverb
"Those who live by numbers can also perish by them and it is a terrifying thing to have an adding machine write an epitaph, either way. "
George J.W. Goodman
"Do not value money for any more nor any less than its worth; it is a good servant but a bad master. "
Alexandre Dumas son
"Crescit amor nummi , quantum ipsa pecunia crevit" / "The love of wealth grows as the wealth itself grew. "
Juvenalis
"I finally know what distinguishes man from other beasts: financial worries. "
Jules Renard
"Someone who is known to always pay exactly as promised can borrow money from other people at any time."
"To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober. "
Logan Pearsall Smith
"Before Selden left college he had learned that there are as many different ways of going without money as of spending it.'
Edith Wharton
"If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion. "
George Bernard Shaw
"If the nation's economists were laid end to end, they would point in all directions. "
Arthur H. Motley
"Whoever said money can’t buy happiness simply didn’t know where shop. "
Bo Derek
"Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. "
Norman Vincent Peale
"A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles. "
"Inflation is taxation without legislation. "
Milton Friedman
"Those who believe money can do everything are frequently prepared to do everything for money. "
Unknown Author
"Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets,
But gold that's put to use more gold begets."
William Shakespeare
"Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool."
Paulc Cartney
"A rich man has more relations than he knows."
France
"Lack of money is the root of all evil. "
George Bernard Shaw
"Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. "Oliver Wendell Holmes
"A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money. ":
W.C. Fields
"He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. "
Henry Ward Beecher
"The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill. "
Peter Ustinov
"By the time I have money to burn, my fire will have burnt out. "
Author Unknown
"That money talks
I'll not deny,
I heard it once:
It said, "Goodbye."
"Richard Armour
"My present post amounts to about 700 thaler, and when there are rather more funerals than usual, the fees rise in proportion; but when a healthy wind blows, they fall accordingly... "
Johhan Sebastian Bach
"As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is, I believe, the worst of all snares."
Daniel Defoe
"Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money. "
Satchel Paige
"But tell me: how did gold get to be the highest value? Because it is uncommon and useless and gleaming and gentle in its brilliance; it always gives itself. Only as an image of the highest virtue did gold get to be the highest value. The giver's glance gleams like gold. A golden brilliance concludes peace between the moon and the sun. Uncommon is the highest virtue and useless, it is gleaming and gentle in its brilliance: a gift-giving virtue is the highest virtue. "
Friedrich Nietzsche
"The rich man plans for tomorrow, the poor man for today."
Chinese Proverb
"We ought to change the legend on our money from "In God We Trust" to "In Money We Trust." Because, as a nation, we've got far more faith in money these days than we do in God. "
Arthur Hoppe
"A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you." Oscar Wilde
"The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket."
Frank Hubbard
"We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs. "
Gloria Steinem
"If God only gave me a clear sign, like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank. "
Woody Allen
"There is a very easy way to return from a casino with a small fortune: go there with a large one. "
Jack Yelton
"With money you can buy sex , but no love"
Chinese proverb
"My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income. "
Errol Flynn
"Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them.'
Wilkie Collins
"Too much prosperity makes most men fools."
Italian Proverb
"Car sickness is the feeling you get when the monthly payment is due. "
Unknown Author
"I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. "
Mark Twain
"Your good reputation is worth more than money."
"They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money. "~George Savile
"I cannot afford to waste my time making money. "
Louis Agassiz
"There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either. "
Robert Graves
"Money's only important when you don't have any."
Sting
"When I have money, I get rid of it quickly, lest it find a way into my heart. "
John Wesley
"It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach. "
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem. '
Bill Vaughn
"After a visit to the beach, it's hard to believe that we live in a material world. "
Pam Shaw
"The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money."
Unknown Author
"I have never been in a situation where having money made it worse. "
Clinton Jones
"It’s morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money. "
WC Fields
"Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. "
Cree Indian Proverb
"The only reason a great many American families don't own an elephant is that they have never been offered an elephant for a dollar down and easy weekly payments. "
Mad Magazine
"When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money."
Kin Hubbard
"Penny wise and pound foolish."
Scotland
"Money can disappear easily. Money is like a bird with wings: it can fly away if you are not careful."
"Why should people ever take credit for charity when they must know that they cannot gain as much pleasure out of their guineas in any other fashion?"
Arthur Conan Doyle
"There is nothing fundamentally wrong with America's cities that money can't cure. "
Carl B. Stokes
"No on is poor but he thinks himself so."
Portugal
"I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money. "
Pablo Picasso
"There are no pockets in a shroud."
Unknown Author
"If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. "
Henry Ford
"A man explained inflation to his wife thus: 'When we married, you measured 36-24-36. Now you're 42-42-42. There's more of you, but you are not worth as much.' "
Joel Barnett
"We all know how the size of sums of money appears to vary in a remarkable way according as they are being paid in or paid out. "
Julian Huxley, Essays of a Biologist, 1923
"A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to us than the 99 which we had to work for, and the money won at Faro or in the stock market snuggles into our hearts in the same way."
Mark Twain
"Money can't buy friends. But you can afford a better class of enemy."
Lord Mancroft
"It is natural that affluence should be followed by influence."
Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare
"A woman's mink coat represents the sacrifice of a lot of little animals, including her husband. "Mignon McLaughlin
"Money doesn't talk, it swears. "
Bob Dylan
"The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. "
Unknown Author
"Ever notice how it's a penny for your thoughts, yet you put in your two-cents? Someone is making a penny on the deal! "
Steven Wright
"A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore. "
Yogi Berra
"With money you can buy a book , but no good knowledge."
Chinese proverb
"I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy."
Steve Martin
"It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. "
Oscar Wilde
"Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life. "
Michael Leboeuf
"There are people who have money and people who are rich. "
Coco Chanel
"Money is a headache, and money is the cure.
"
Everett Mámor
"It has beeen said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly."
Samuel Butler
"Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor. "
Benjamin Franklin
"Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for. I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace."
Louisa May Alcott
"Remuneration! O, that's the Latin word for three farthings."
William Shakespeare
"This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy. "Douglas Adams
"You can be young without money but you can't be old without it. "
Tennessee Williams
"Life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills. "
Clifford Odets
"Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. "
Ambrose Bierce
"What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money. "
Henny Youngman
"There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail. "
Logan Pearsall Smith
"Money is like muck, not good except it be spread."
Francis Bacon
"It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy."
George Horace Lorimer
"It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. "
Aeschylus
""Your money, or your life." We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does. "
Mignon McLaughlin
"An employer who pays well is never short of staff."
"I doubt there is any true courage," said he, "in squabbling for money."
Anthony Trollope
"Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. "
Sam Ewing
"A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it. "
Bob Hope
"Business is the art of extracting money from another man's pocket without resorting to violence. "
Max Amsterdam
"You have power, rank, command, influence; we have wealth, the source both of our strength and weakness . . . "
Walter Scott
"Never invest in anything that eats or needs repairing. "
Billy Rose
"Honesty is the best policy -- when there is money in it. "
Mark Twain
"O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper,
Which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour."
Lord Byron
"Always borrow money from a pessimist, he doesn't expect to be paid back. "
Unknown Author
"If you lend someone $20, and never see that person again, it was probably worth it. "
Unknown Author
"If you cannot become rich, be the neighbour of a rich man."
Armenian Proverb
"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. "
Rita Rudner
"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. " Robert Orben
"Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving. "
"Semper inpos quicumque cupit." / " Whoever desires is always poor. "
Claudian
"A fool may earn money, but it takes a wise man to keep it."
Scotland Proverb
"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen ninety six (£19.96), result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six (£20.06), result misery. "
Charles Dickens
Dan Millman
"Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy. "
Spike Milligan
"No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions - he had money, too. "
Margaret Thatcher
"My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter. "
Abraham Lincoln
"If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments. "
Earl Wilson
"I don't like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves. "
Joe Louis
"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons." Woody Allen
"I don't like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves. "
Joe Louis
"Budget: a mathematical confirmation of your suspicions. "
A.A. Latimer
"Pecuniate obediunt omnia." / " All things obey money."
Latin Proverb
"It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed. "
Kin Hubbard
"The most popular labor-saving device is still money. "
Phyllis George
"I make a lot of money, but I don't want to talk about that. I work very hard and I'm worth every cent. "
Naomi Campbell
"Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells. "
J. Paul Getty
"We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to. ~
"Alexander Pope
"A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it rains. "
Robert Frost
"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons."
Woody Allen
"Too much money is as demoralizing as too little, and there's no such thing as exactly enough. "
Mignon McLaughlin
"With money you can buy a clock , but no time."
Chinese proverb
"It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. '
Albert Camus
"A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if he were rich. "
Jacob Astor
"To make a million, start with $900,000. "
Morton Shulman
"When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. "
Voltaire
"A bank book makes good reading - better than some novels."
Harry Lauder
"Women prefer men who have something tender about them - especially the legal kind. "
Kay Ingram
"There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we count ourselves among them. "
Mignon McLaughlin
"Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy you the kind of misery you prefer. "
Unknown Author
"Corruptio optimi pessima." / "Corruption of the best is worst'
Latin Proverb
"Nothing more clearly show how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other wordly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them."
La Bruyere
"Money often costs too much. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"When a fellow says it hain't the money but the principle o' the thing, it's th' money. "
Frank McKinney
"There are three ways of losing money: racing is the quickest, women the most pleasant, and farming the most certain. "
Lord Amherst
"When it's a question of money, everybody is of the same religion."
Voltaire
"It's not easy to get money. We have to work hard to make money. We can't just walk around and pick it like fruit from the tress."
"The waste of money cures itself, for soon there is no more to waste. "
M.W. Harrison
"They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price. "
Kahlil Gibran
"I'm so poor I can't even pay attention.
Ron Kittle
"Poverty is no disgrace, but it's also no great honour."
Yiddish
":Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow."
Thornton Wilder
"You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony. "
John Barrymore
"If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil. " Henry Fielding
"It frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy. "
Groucho Marx
"When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor. "
Euripides
"We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings. "
Thomas Carlyle
"We live by the Golden Rule. Those who have the gold make the rules. "
Buzzie Bavasi
"Part of the $10 million I spent on gambling, part on booze and part on women. The rest I spent foolishly. "
George Raft
"I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year. "
Victor Borge
"A man's soul may be buried and perish under a dungheap or in a furrow of the field, just as well as under a pile of money. "
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity."
Thomas Wolfe
"It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich. "
Alan Alda
"There are several ways in which to apportion the family income, all of them unsatisfactory. "
Robert Benchley
"To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it. "
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband. "
H.L. Mencken
"When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is. "
Oscar Wilde
"Hereby perhaps Stubb indirectly hinted, that though man loved his fellow, yet man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence."
Herman Melville
"With money in your pocket, you are wise and you are handsome and you sing well too."
Yiddish Proverb
"The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters. "
Jean-Paul Kauffmann
"Don't marry for money. You can borrow it cheaper. '
Scott Proberb
"Pecunia non olet" / " Money has no smell."
Vespasianus
"Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings. "
Carl Sandburg
"I am having an out of money experience. "
Unknown Author
"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. "
Aristotle Onassis
"Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket. "
Kin Hubbard
"What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!"William Makepeace Thackerary
"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. "
Robert Orben
"With money you can buy blood , but no life."
Chinese proverb
"Money is much more exciting than anything it buys."
Mignon McLaughlin
"The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance. "
Oscar Wilde
"Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the "gotta have it" scale. "
Zig Ziglar
"It is better to spend money like there's no tomorrow than to spend tonight like there's no money. "
P.J.O'Rourke
"If you have money, it will serve you and work for you well. But if you owe money to other people, that money will control you in an unpleasant way."
"Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us,
The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in,
The priest hath his fee who comes and shrives us,
We bargain for the graves we lie in;
At the devil's booth are all things sold,
Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold;
For a cap and bells our lives we pay.
Bubbles we buy with a whole soul's tasking,
'Tis heaven alone that is given away,
'Tis only God may be had for the asking,
No price is set on the lavish summer;
June may be had by the poorest comer."
James Russell Lowell
"Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five."
W.Somerset Maugham
"Money is human happiness in the abstract; and so the man who is no longer capable of enjoying such happiness in the concrete, sets his whole heart on money. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. "
George Burns
"I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor: Rich is better. —
"
Sophie Tucker
"Better spend an extra hundred or two on your son's education, than leave it him in your will."
George Elliot
"Money often costs too much."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"God gave me my money. I believe the power to make money is a gift from God . . . to be developed & used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind. Having been endowed with the gift I possess, I believe it is my duty to make money & still more money & to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience."
John D. Rockefeller
"One of the strange things about life is that the poor, who need money the most, are the very ones that never have it. "
Finley Peter Dunne
"Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money - or the want of money; but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order. "
Samuel Butler
"Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed."
Mohandas K. Ghandi
"I'm so naive about finances. Once when my mother mentioned an amount and I realized I didn't understand, she had to explain: 'That's like three Mercedes.' Then I understood. "
Brooke Shields
"Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail. "
Henry Wheeler Shaw
"A heart free from care is better than a full purse."
Proverb from Saudi Arabia
"There are other important things in this world, not just money."
"When you let money speak for you, it drowns out anything else you meant to say. "
Mignon McLaughlin
"I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something. "
Jackie Mason
"I love to go to Washington, if only to be nearer my money. "
Bob Hope
"People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage. "
Doug Larson
"He who has money can eat ice cream in hell."
Lebanon Proverb
"October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February. "
Mark Twain
"I cannot afford to waste my time making money. "
Louis Agassiz
"Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night."
Marian Wright Edelman
"Nervos belli , pecuniam. ' / " The nerve of war, money. "
Cicero
"I wish I'd said it first, and I don't even know who did: The only problems that money can solve are money problems. "
Mignon McLaughlin
"Economy," I remarked, putting my hands in my pockets, "is going without something you do want in case you should, some day, want something which you probably won't want."
Anthony Hope
"I don't wake up for less than $10,000 a day. "
Linda Evangelista
"The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you."
Katherine Witherhorn
"I finally know what distinguishes man from other beasts: financial worries. "
Jules Renard
"When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life and now that I am old, I know it is.” Oscar Wilde
"With money you can buy a bed , but no sleep."
Chinese proverb
"Stupid people spend their money carelessly and soon become poor."
"He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends. "
William Shakespeare
"Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie. "
Max Beerbohm
"If inflation continues to soar, you're going to have to work like a dog just to live like one. "
George Gobel
"There were times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails. "
Spencer Tracy
"God is on everyone's side … and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies."
Jean Anouilh
"No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather. "
Michael Pritchard
"I once met an economist who believed that everything was fungible for money, so I suggested he enclose himself in a large bell-jar with as much money as he wanted and see how long he lasted. "
Amory Lovins
"Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip. "
John Locke
"I have always said that if I were a rich man, I would employ a professional praiser. "
Osbert Sitwell
"Everyone should have enough money to get plastic surgery. '
Beverly Johnson
"Money does not pay for anything, never has, never will. It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services. "
Albert Jay Nock
"If he had unlimited money at his disposal, he might go into the wilds somewhere and shoot big game. I never know what the big game have done to deserve it, but they do help to deflect the destructive energies of some of our social misfits."
Saki
"Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does."
Jane Austen
"Absque argento omnia vana. "/ "Without money all is in vain.'
Latin Proverb
"I'm tired of Love: I'm still more tired of Rhyme.
But Money gives me pleasure all the time."
Hilaire Belloc
"I don’t like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves. "
Joe Louis
"We were so poor my daddy unplugged the clocks when we went to bed. "
Chris Rock
"Poverty is the common face of all scholars."
Chinese Proverb
"In the old days a man who saved money was a miser; nowadays he's a wonder. "
Unknown Author
"Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness. "
Henrik Ibsen
"Ever wonder about those people who spend $2 apiece on those little bottles of Evian water? Try spelling Evian backward. "
George Carlin
"I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok. "
Shaquille O'Neal
"Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy."
Izaak Walton
"For the folk-community does not exist on the fictitious value of money but on the results of productive labour, which is what gives money its value."
Adolf Hitler
"How quickly nature falls into revolt
When gold becomes her object!
For this the foolish over-careful fathers
Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with care,
Their bones with industry."
William Shakespeare
"Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Those who live by numbers can also perish by them and it is a terrifying thing to have an adding machine write an epitaph, either way. "
George J.W. Goodman
"Abite nummi , ego vos mergam , ne mergar a vobis"/ Away with you, money, I will sink you that I may not be sunk by you.
Latin Proverb
"If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. "
Paul Getty
"If you would know the value of money try to borrow some. "
Benjamin Franklin
"Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable? One symbol, indeed, has obscured all others--the minted round of metal. And one may safely say that, of all the ages since a coin first became the symbol of power, ours is that in which it yields to the majority of its possessors the poorest return in heart's contentment."
George Gissing
Gabrielle Chanel
"Nihil tam munitum quod non expugnari pecunia possit." / " No fort is so strong that it cannot be taken with money."
Cicero
"Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet."
Henry James
"Money is something you have to make in case you don’t die. " Max Asnas
"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to. "
Dorothy Parker
"I once met an economist who believed that everything was fungible for money, so I suggested he enclose himself in a large bell-jar with as much money as he wanted and see how long he lasted. "
Amory Lovins
"Money does not pay for anything, never has, never will. It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services. "
Albert Jay Nock
"I'm tired of Love: I'm still more tired of Rhyme.
But Money gives me pleasure all the time."
Hilaire Belloc
"In the old days a man who saved money was a miser; nowadays he's a wonder. "
Unknown Author
"Money isn't everything. It's just most everything."
Nica Clark
"Money don't bring Hapiness."
Romanian Proverb
"Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop. "
Gertrude Stein
"Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness. "
Henrik Ibsen
"More people are bribed by their own money than anybody else's."
Jonathan Daniels
"How quickly nature falls into revolt
When gold becomes her object!
For this the foolish over-careful fathers
Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with care,
Their bones with industry."
William Shakespeare
"Money is power, & you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it."
Russell H. Conwell, Temple Univ, 1877
"In societies of low civilization, there is no money."
Herbert Spencer
"Money is only good for a weekday, a holiday, and a rainy day."
Russian Proverb
"Those who live by numbers can also perish by them and it is a terrifying thing to have an adding machine write an epitaph, either way. "
George J.W. Goodman
"Do not value money for any more nor any less than its worth; it is a good servant but a bad master. "
Alexandre Dumas son
"Crescit amor nummi , quantum ipsa pecunia crevit" / "The love of wealth grows as the wealth itself grew. "
Juvenalis
"I finally know what distinguishes man from other beasts: financial worries. "
Jules Renard
"Someone who is known to always pay exactly as promised can borrow money from other people at any time."
"To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober. "
Logan Pearsall Smith
"Before Selden left college he had learned that there are as many different ways of going without money as of spending it.'
Edith Wharton
"If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion. "
George Bernard Shaw
"If the nation's economists were laid end to end, they would point in all directions. "
Arthur H. Motley
"Whoever said money can’t buy happiness simply didn’t know where shop. "
Bo Derek
"Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. "
Norman Vincent Peale
"A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles. "
"Inflation is taxation without legislation. "
Milton Friedman
"Those who believe money can do everything are frequently prepared to do everything for money. "
Unknown Author
"Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets,
But gold that's put to use more gold begets."
William Shakespeare
"Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool."
Paulc Cartney
"A rich man has more relations than he knows."
France
"Lack of money is the root of all evil. "
George Bernard Shaw
"Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. "Oliver Wendell Holmes
"A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money. ":
W.C. Fields
"He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. "
Henry Ward Beecher
"The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill. "
Peter Ustinov
"By the time I have money to burn, my fire will have burnt out. "
Author Unknown
"That money talks
I'll not deny,
I heard it once:
It said, "Goodbye."
"Richard Armour
"My present post amounts to about 700 thaler, and when there are rather more funerals than usual, the fees rise in proportion; but when a healthy wind blows, they fall accordingly... "
Johhan Sebastian Bach
"As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is, I believe, the worst of all snares."
Daniel Defoe
"Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money. "
Satchel Paige
"But tell me: how did gold get to be the highest value? Because it is uncommon and useless and gleaming and gentle in its brilliance; it always gives itself. Only as an image of the highest virtue did gold get to be the highest value. The giver's glance gleams like gold. A golden brilliance concludes peace between the moon and the sun. Uncommon is the highest virtue and useless, it is gleaming and gentle in its brilliance: a gift-giving virtue is the highest virtue. "
Friedrich Nietzsche
"The rich man plans for tomorrow, the poor man for today."
Chinese Proverb
"We ought to change the legend on our money from "In God We Trust" to "In Money We Trust." Because, as a nation, we've got far more faith in money these days than we do in God. "
Arthur Hoppe
"A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you." Oscar Wilde
"The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket."
Frank Hubbard
"We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs. "
Gloria Steinem
"If God only gave me a clear sign, like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank. "
Woody Allen
"There is a very easy way to return from a casino with a small fortune: go there with a large one. "
Jack Yelton
"With money you can buy sex , but no love"
Chinese proverb
"My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income. "
Errol Flynn
"Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them.'
Wilkie Collins
"Too much prosperity makes most men fools."
Italian Proverb
"Car sickness is the feeling you get when the monthly payment is due. "
Unknown Author
"I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. "
Mark Twain
"Your good reputation is worth more than money."
"They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money. "~George Savile
"I cannot afford to waste my time making money. "
Louis Agassiz
"There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either. "
Robert Graves
"Money's only important when you don't have any."
Sting
"When I have money, I get rid of it quickly, lest it find a way into my heart. "
John Wesley
"It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach. "
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem. '
Bill Vaughn
"After a visit to the beach, it's hard to believe that we live in a material world. "
Pam Shaw
"The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money."
Unknown Author
"I have never been in a situation where having money made it worse. "
Clinton Jones
"It’s morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money. "
WC Fields
"Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. "
Cree Indian Proverb
"The only reason a great many American families don't own an elephant is that they have never been offered an elephant for a dollar down and easy weekly payments. "
Mad Magazine
"When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money."
Kin Hubbard
"Penny wise and pound foolish."
Scotland
"Money can disappear easily. Money is like a bird with wings: it can fly away if you are not careful."
"Why should people ever take credit for charity when they must know that they cannot gain as much pleasure out of their guineas in any other fashion?"
Arthur Conan Doyle
"There is nothing fundamentally wrong with America's cities that money can't cure. "
Carl B. Stokes
"No on is poor but he thinks himself so."
Portugal
"I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money. "
Pablo Picasso
"There are no pockets in a shroud."
Unknown Author
"If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. "
Henry Ford
"A man explained inflation to his wife thus: 'When we married, you measured 36-24-36. Now you're 42-42-42. There's more of you, but you are not worth as much.' "
Joel Barnett
"We all know how the size of sums of money appears to vary in a remarkable way according as they are being paid in or paid out. "
Julian Huxley, Essays of a Biologist, 1923
"A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to us than the 99 which we had to work for, and the money won at Faro or in the stock market snuggles into our hearts in the same way."
Mark Twain
"Money can't buy friends. But you can afford a better class of enemy."
Lord Mancroft
"It is natural that affluence should be followed by influence."
Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare
"A woman's mink coat represents the sacrifice of a lot of little animals, including her husband. "Mignon McLaughlin
"Money doesn't talk, it swears. "
Bob Dylan
"The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. "
Unknown Author
"Ever notice how it's a penny for your thoughts, yet you put in your two-cents? Someone is making a penny on the deal! "
Steven Wright
"A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore. "
Yogi Berra
"With money you can buy a book , but no good knowledge."
Chinese proverb
"I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy."
Steve Martin
"It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. "
Oscar Wilde
"Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life. "
Michael Leboeuf
"There are people who have money and people who are rich. "
Coco Chanel
"Money is a headache, and money is the cure.
"
Everett Mámor
"It has beeen said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly."
Samuel Butler
"Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor. "
Benjamin Franklin
"Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for. I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace."
Louisa May Alcott
"Remuneration! O, that's the Latin word for three farthings."
William Shakespeare
"This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy. "Douglas Adams
"You can be young without money but you can't be old without it. "
Tennessee Williams
"Life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills. "
Clifford Odets
"Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. "
Ambrose Bierce
"What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money. "
Henny Youngman
"There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail. "
Logan Pearsall Smith
"Money is like muck, not good except it be spread."
Francis Bacon
"It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy."
George Horace Lorimer
"It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. "
Aeschylus
""Your money, or your life." We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does. "
Mignon McLaughlin
"An employer who pays well is never short of staff."
"I doubt there is any true courage," said he, "in squabbling for money."
Anthony Trollope
"Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. "
Sam Ewing
"A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it. "
Bob Hope
"Business is the art of extracting money from another man's pocket without resorting to violence. "
Max Amsterdam
"You have power, rank, command, influence; we have wealth, the source both of our strength and weakness . . . "
Walter Scott
"Never invest in anything that eats or needs repairing. "
Billy Rose
"Honesty is the best policy -- when there is money in it. "
Mark Twain
"O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper,
Which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour."
Lord Byron
"Always borrow money from a pessimist, he doesn't expect to be paid back. "
Unknown Author
"If you lend someone $20, and never see that person again, it was probably worth it. "
Unknown Author
"If you cannot become rich, be the neighbour of a rich man."
Armenian Proverb
"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. "
Rita Rudner
"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. " Robert Orben
"Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving. "
"Semper inpos quicumque cupit." / " Whoever desires is always poor. "
Claudian
"A fool may earn money, but it takes a wise man to keep it."
Scotland Proverb
"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen ninety six (£19.96), result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six (£20.06), result misery. "
Charles Dickens
Dan Millman
"Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy. "
Spike Milligan
"No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions - he had money, too. "
Margaret Thatcher
"My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter. "
Abraham Lincoln
"If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments. "
Earl Wilson
"I don't like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves. "
Joe Louis
"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons." Woody Allen
"I don't like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves. "
Joe Louis
"Budget: a mathematical confirmation of your suspicions. "
A.A. Latimer
"Pecuniate obediunt omnia." / " All things obey money."
Latin Proverb
"It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed. "
Kin Hubbard
"The most popular labor-saving device is still money. "
Phyllis George
"I make a lot of money, but I don't want to talk about that. I work very hard and I'm worth every cent. "
Naomi Campbell
"Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells. "
J. Paul Getty
"We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to. ~
"Alexander Pope
"A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it rains. "
Robert Frost
"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons."
Woody Allen
"Too much money is as demoralizing as too little, and there's no such thing as exactly enough. "
Mignon McLaughlin
"With money you can buy a clock , but no time."
Chinese proverb
"It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. '
Albert Camus
"A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if he were rich. "
Jacob Astor
"To make a million, start with $900,000. "
Morton Shulman
"When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. "
Voltaire
"A bank book makes good reading - better than some novels."
Harry Lauder
"Women prefer men who have something tender about them - especially the legal kind. "
Kay Ingram
"There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we count ourselves among them. "
Mignon McLaughlin
"Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy you the kind of misery you prefer. "
Unknown Author
"Corruptio optimi pessima." / "Corruption of the best is worst'
Latin Proverb
"Nothing more clearly show how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other wordly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them."
La Bruyere
"Money often costs too much. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"When a fellow says it hain't the money but the principle o' the thing, it's th' money. "
Frank McKinney
"There are three ways of losing money: racing is the quickest, women the most pleasant, and farming the most certain. "
Lord Amherst
"When it's a question of money, everybody is of the same religion."
Voltaire
"It's not easy to get money. We have to work hard to make money. We can't just walk around and pick it like fruit from the tress."
"The waste of money cures itself, for soon there is no more to waste. "
M.W. Harrison
"They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price. "
Kahlil Gibran
"I'm so poor I can't even pay attention.
Ron Kittle
"Poverty is no disgrace, but it's also no great honour."
Yiddish
":Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow."
Thornton Wilder
"You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony. "
John Barrymore
"If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil. " Henry Fielding
"It frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy. "
Groucho Marx
"When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor. "
Euripides
"We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings. "
Thomas Carlyle
"We live by the Golden Rule. Those who have the gold make the rules. "
Buzzie Bavasi
"Part of the $10 million I spent on gambling, part on booze and part on women. The rest I spent foolishly. "
George Raft
"I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year. "
Victor Borge
"A man's soul may be buried and perish under a dungheap or in a furrow of the field, just as well as under a pile of money. "
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity."
Thomas Wolfe
"It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich. "
Alan Alda
"There are several ways in which to apportion the family income, all of them unsatisfactory. "
Robert Benchley
"To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it. "
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband. "
H.L. Mencken
"When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is. "
Oscar Wilde
"Hereby perhaps Stubb indirectly hinted, that though man loved his fellow, yet man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence."
Herman Melville
"With money in your pocket, you are wise and you are handsome and you sing well too."
Yiddish Proverb
"The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters. "
Jean-Paul Kauffmann
"Don't marry for money. You can borrow it cheaper. '
Scott Proberb
"Pecunia non olet" / " Money has no smell."
Vespasianus
"Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings. "
Carl Sandburg
"I am having an out of money experience. "
Unknown Author
"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. "
Aristotle Onassis
"Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket. "
Kin Hubbard
"What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!"William Makepeace Thackerary
"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. "
Robert Orben
"With money you can buy blood , but no life."
Chinese proverb
"Money is much more exciting than anything it buys."
Mignon McLaughlin
"The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance. "
Oscar Wilde
"Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the "gotta have it" scale. "
Zig Ziglar
"It is better to spend money like there's no tomorrow than to spend tonight like there's no money. "
P.J.O'Rourke
"If you have money, it will serve you and work for you well. But if you owe money to other people, that money will control you in an unpleasant way."
"Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us,
The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in,
The priest hath his fee who comes and shrives us,
We bargain for the graves we lie in;
At the devil's booth are all things sold,
Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold;
For a cap and bells our lives we pay.
Bubbles we buy with a whole soul's tasking,
'Tis heaven alone that is given away,
'Tis only God may be had for the asking,
No price is set on the lavish summer;
June may be had by the poorest comer."
James Russell Lowell
"Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five."
W.Somerset Maugham
"Money is human happiness in the abstract; and so the man who is no longer capable of enjoying such happiness in the concrete, sets his whole heart on money. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. "
George Burns
"I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor: Rich is better. —
"
Sophie Tucker
"Better spend an extra hundred or two on your son's education, than leave it him in your will."
George Elliot
"Money often costs too much."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"God gave me my money. I believe the power to make money is a gift from God . . . to be developed & used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind. Having been endowed with the gift I possess, I believe it is my duty to make money & still more money & to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience."
John D. Rockefeller
"One of the strange things about life is that the poor, who need money the most, are the very ones that never have it. "
Finley Peter Dunne
"Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money - or the want of money; but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order. "
Samuel Butler
"Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed."
Mohandas K. Ghandi
"I'm so naive about finances. Once when my mother mentioned an amount and I realized I didn't understand, she had to explain: 'That's like three Mercedes.' Then I understood. "
Brooke Shields
"Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail. "
Henry Wheeler Shaw
"A heart free from care is better than a full purse."
Proverb from Saudi Arabia
"There are other important things in this world, not just money."
"When you let money speak for you, it drowns out anything else you meant to say. "
Mignon McLaughlin
"I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something. "
Jackie Mason
"I love to go to Washington, if only to be nearer my money. "
Bob Hope
"People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage. "
Doug Larson
"He who has money can eat ice cream in hell."
Lebanon Proverb
"October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February. "
Mark Twain
"I cannot afford to waste my time making money. "
Louis Agassiz
"Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night."
Marian Wright Edelman
"Nervos belli , pecuniam. ' / " The nerve of war, money. "
Cicero
"I wish I'd said it first, and I don't even know who did: The only problems that money can solve are money problems. "
Mignon McLaughlin
"Economy," I remarked, putting my hands in my pockets, "is going without something you do want in case you should, some day, want something which you probably won't want."
Anthony Hope
"I don't wake up for less than $10,000 a day. "
Linda Evangelista
"The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you."
Katherine Witherhorn
"I finally know what distinguishes man from other beasts: financial worries. "
Jules Renard
"When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life and now that I am old, I know it is.” Oscar Wilde
"With money you can buy a bed , but no sleep."
Chinese proverb
"Stupid people spend their money carelessly and soon become poor."
"He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends. "
William Shakespeare
"Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie. "
Max Beerbohm
"If inflation continues to soar, you're going to have to work like a dog just to live like one. "
George Gobel
"There were times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails. "
Spencer Tracy
"God is on everyone's side … and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies."
Jean Anouilh
"No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather. "
Michael Pritchard
"I once met an economist who believed that everything was fungible for money, so I suggested he enclose himself in a large bell-jar with as much money as he wanted and see how long he lasted. "
Amory Lovins
"Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip. "
John Locke
"I have always said that if I were a rich man, I would employ a professional praiser. "
Osbert Sitwell
"Everyone should have enough money to get plastic surgery. '
Beverly Johnson
"Money does not pay for anything, never has, never will. It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services. "
Albert Jay Nock
"If he had unlimited money at his disposal, he might go into the wilds somewhere and shoot big game. I never know what the big game have done to deserve it, but they do help to deflect the destructive energies of some of our social misfits."
Saki
"Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does."
Jane Austen
"Absque argento omnia vana. "/ "Without money all is in vain.'
Latin Proverb
"I'm tired of Love: I'm still more tired of Rhyme.
But Money gives me pleasure all the time."
Hilaire Belloc
"I don’t like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves. "
Joe Louis
"We were so poor my daddy unplugged the clocks when we went to bed. "
Chris Rock
"Poverty is the common face of all scholars."
Chinese Proverb
"In the old days a man who saved money was a miser; nowadays he's a wonder. "
Unknown Author
"Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness. "
Henrik Ibsen
"Ever wonder about those people who spend $2 apiece on those little bottles of Evian water? Try spelling Evian backward. "
George Carlin
"I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok. "
Shaquille O'Neal
"Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy."
Izaak Walton
"For the folk-community does not exist on the fictitious value of money but on the results of productive labour, which is what gives money its value."
Adolf Hitler
"How quickly nature falls into revolt
When gold becomes her object!
For this the foolish over-careful fathers
Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with care,
Their bones with industry."
William Shakespeare
"Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Those who live by numbers can also perish by them and it is a terrifying thing to have an adding machine write an epitaph, either way. "
George J.W. Goodman
"Abite nummi , ego vos mergam , ne mergar a vobis"/ Away with you, money, I will sink you that I may not be sunk by you.
Latin Proverb
"If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. "
Paul Getty
"If you would know the value of money try to borrow some. "
Benjamin Franklin
"Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable? One symbol, indeed, has obscured all others--the minted round of metal. And one may safely say that, of all the ages since a coin first became the symbol of power, ours is that in which it yields to the majority of its possessors the poorest return in heart's contentment."
George Gissing
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