In these difficult financial times take time to step back and reflect on the advice that wise people have offered through the centuries on wealth and money. Some of these quotations offer profound wisdom, some are cynical, while others simply make you smile!
Practical Advice on Money
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.” Charles Dickens (1812-70)
“Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves.” William Lowndes (1652-1724)
"How many things I can do without!" Socrates (469-399 bc)
“Expenditure rises to meet income.” C. Northcote Parkinson (1909-93)
Wisdom on Wealth
"Money doesn't talk, it swears." Bob Dylan (1941)
"The love of money is the root of all evil." Bible: I Timothy
“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.” Bible: St Matthew
"Money is like muck, not good except it be spread." Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
“Riches are a good handmaid, but the worst mistress.” Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
“For I don't care too much for money, For money can't buy me love.” John Lennon (1940-80) and Paul McCartney (1942)
“There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed.” Frank Buchman (1878-1961)
Witty Comments on Money
"Money couldn't buy friends but you got a better class of enemy." Spike Milligan (1918-2002)
"Having money is rather like being a blonde. It is more fun but not vital." Mary Quant (1934)
“The chance of winning the lottery jackpot is less than that of being struck by lightning. I have never bought a ticket and plan to buy an insulating rubber helmet with the money I save. It will increase my life expectancy by precisely one fourteen-millionth.” Steve Jones (1944)
“No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.” Samuel Johnson (1709-84)
“A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.” Bob Hope (1903)
“A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.” (definition of a cynic) Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
“We haven't got the money, so we've got to think!” Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937)
Controversial Comments on Money
"No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions. He had money as well." Margaret Thatcher (1925)
“Pennies don't fall from heaven. They have to be earned on earth.” Margaret Thatcher (1925)
“Fame vaporizes, money goes with the wind, and all that's left is character.” O. J. Simpson (1947)
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For a charming, contemporary account of how one woman lived well on a very low budget, read Kath Kelly's book How I lived a Year on just a Pound a Day. And check out these tips on How to Survive the Economic Downturn.
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