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Wealth and Poverty
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# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 2003)
All I ask is a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
# · Unrated · submitted 1998 (updated 1999)
Some of the worst torments imaginable accompany wealth. And yet many a poor man is eager for preferment and dreams of somehow "improving" his estate. Where money and property are concerned, none but vagrants are wise.
Christopher Spranger, The Effort to Fall, in Wealth and Poverty
# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
Having nothing, nothing can he lose.
William Shakespeare, Henry VI, in Wealth and Poverty
# · Not So Good (62 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999) ·
Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Love and Hate and Wealth and Poverty
The College Blue Book (data CD)# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
Figure it out. Work a lifetime to pay off a house. You finally own it and there's no one to live in it.
Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman, in Life and Death and Wealth and Poverty
Death of a Salesman (paperback)# · Not So Good (41 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Wealth and Poverty
The Devil's Dictionary (paperback)# · Unrated · submitted 1999
Alas, fortune does not change men; it unmasks them.
# · Unrated · submitted 1998 by nthomas
The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong.
# · Not So Good (26 ratings) · submitted 1997
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
# · Not So Good (23 ratings) · submitted 1997
If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.
Bill Anderson, (from the song "Poor Folks"), in Wealth and Poverty
# · Not So Good (30 ratings) · submitted 1997
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
# · Not So Good (42 ratings) · submitted 1997
A young man with good health and a poor appetite can save up money.
# · Not So Good (26 ratings) · submitted 1997
Behind every great fortune, there is a crime.
# · Not So Good (42 ratings) · submitted 1997
No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
# · Not So Good (33 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is odd, is it not, that a person's worth to society is measured by their wealth, when instead their wealth should be measured by their worth to society.
# · Not So Good (29 ratings) · submitted 1997
One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need money the most, are the very ones that never have it.
# · Not So Good (19 ratings) · submitted 1997
Money is like an arm or leg: use it or lose it.
# · Not So Good (23 ratings) · submitted 1997
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
# · Not So Good (171 ratings) · submitted 1997 ·
Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.
# · Not So Good (157 ratings) · submitted 1997
In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.
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