Showing posts with label Poverty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Poverty. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Wealth and Poverty

"Watch what you say to someone with nothing. "t's almost like having it all." - Todd Snider

"I'll pay for my sins when I get paid." - Frank Turner

 "How do we know that if we give a load of money to starving people, that they are not gonna blow it all on food?" - Philomena Cunk  

"The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced." - Andreew Carnegie

 "When banks fail it is seldom bankers who starve." - Terry Pratchett

"Why should people who aren't on fire be asked again and again and again to subsidize these imflammable people who seem to want something for nothing?" - Mark Steel

"You know why I wouldn't go to space? It's full of freaking billionaires." - Adam Burke

"I have been thinking that the obituaries of rich people should contain the number of trees they planted while alive." -Oluwatoyin Kole

"The best things in life are expensive." - Peter Berryman 

"As I travel around this big old world there's one thing I most fear.  It's a white man in a golf shirt with a cell phone in his ear." -Tom Russell

"Retail therapy is buying things you don't need with money you don't have to impress people you don't like." - Martha Chavez

 “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair

"Chicago is a city where rich and poor stand side by side, ignoring each other." - Max Allan Collins

"A man of large purse has usually a very little soul which he keeps in it.” - Edgar Allan Poe

 "People don't like people who are indigent... They think they can catch it." - Lisa Sandlin

"Money may beat whatever's in second place, but it ain't everything." - Brendan DuBois

"Once again the invisible hand of the free market shows us a single finger." - Lorrie B. Potters

"When you come from poor, poor is always in your head." - Michelle Richmond

"Camping is very much the rich man's sleeping on the floor." -Jayde Adams

"The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent."  -John Maynard Keynes

"Some people are so poor, all they have is money." -Bob Marley

"They will always get most who are meanest." - Thomas Jefferson

"The top ten hedge fund managers make more than all the kindergarten teachers in the United States." - Joseph J. Ellis (2018)

"A small coin held close to the eye blocks out the world." - Rabbi Harold Schulweis

"If there was a shred of truth to the claim that the rich are our nation's job creators, then given how rich the rich have gotten, America should be drowning in jobs!" -Nick Hanauer, multi-millionaire.

"My experience is that no one ever has enough money, especially the rich."  - Paul Lees-Haley

"I spent the coin I used to toss." - John Fullbright

 "The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time."  - Willem de Kooning

"By the time I make a  million dollars, they'll have a coin for it."  -Erik Frandsen

"Poverty - real poverty - separates you from the rest of the world in a way that nothing else - not race, not gender, not sexuality, not religion - can do. You are forever outside, watching through the window at the party everyone else is enjoying."  -Victor J. Banis

"Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed."  - Herman Melville

“There’s such a thing as actors paying their mortgages too publicly.” Simon Brett

“Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.” -Woody Allen

“I’m truly sorry to have caused inconvenience.” – Mark Karpeles, owner of Mount Gox, on having lost $450 million of his customers’ money.

“The more I buy, the more I’m bought.” -Joe Pug

"If you want to break even at the casinos, play the change machine!" – Utah Phillips

"Money makes people rich; it is a fallacy to think it makes them better, or even that it makes them worse.” - Terry Pratchett

"I've been on welfare and food stamps...did anyone help me?" - Craig T. Nelson

“I’m going to be enormously rich and moving up to a lower tax bracket.” - Garrison Keillor.

"I never bought a man who wasn't for sale." -Senator William Andrews Clark, Montana

"Beyond a certain amount, money costs too much." -Michael Z. Lewin

"People of the same trade seldom meet together even for merriment or diversions but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices." -Adam Smith, The Wealth Of Nations

"Th e creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times." -Benjamin Franklin

 "This particular American view of 'success' ...as near as I can make it out, is the ability to keep out of jail." -Charles Dudley Warner, 1896

"He owns a private yacht that he can sail on any time, because he never wants to miss the boat again."-Maury Meulheisen,

"Poverty buys me stranger things than money." -Ethel Romig Fuller

"Money can't buy off the lightning." -Stephen King 

"Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attraction asthat from which they draw their gains." -ThomasJefferson

"Wealth is a great predicter of topography." -Patrick Irelan