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Casually surfing online, I chanced upon some real gems about money from noted personalities. I dug deeper and searched some more. Eventually, I ended up with a huge collection, that I had difficulty bringing down to 60 (I was aiming for 50). So here it goes (in alphabetical order): Let me know which ones you like, or suggest some of your own. Enjoy!!

1. A bank book makes good reading - better than some novels. - Harry Lauder
2. A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. - Robert Frost
3. A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other. - George Jean Nathan
4. A woman’s mink coat represents the sacrifice of a lot of little animals, including her husband. - Mignon McLaughlin
5. All I ask is the chance to prove that money can’t make me happy. - Spike Milligan.
6. All the great economic ills the world has faced this century can be directly traced back to the London School of Economics. – N M Perrera
7. Business is the art of extracting money from another man’s pocket without resorting to violence. - Max Amsterdam
8. Early to bed and early to rise — till you get enough money to do otherwise. - Peter’s Almanac
9. 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
10. Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears. - Robert W. Sarnoff
11. 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
12. He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it. - W. Somerset Maugham
13. How much money did you make last year? Mail it in. [suggestion for a simplified tax form] - Stanton Delaplane
14. I am having an out of money experience. - Author Unknown
15. I have never been in a situation where having money made it worse. - Clinton Jones.
16. I wish that dear Karl could have spent more time acquiring capital instead of merely writing about it. - Jenny Marx
17. If you owe the bank $100 that’s your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that’s the bank’s problem. – J P Getty
18. If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments. - Earl Wilson
19. If you would like to know the value of money, go and try to borrow some. - Benjamin Franklin
20. If you’re given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal. - Katharine Hepburn
21. I’m living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. - E E Cummings
22. I’m so poor I can’t even pay attention. - Ron Kittle
23. In God we trust, all others must pay cash. - American Saying
24. Inflation hasn’t ruined everything. A dime can still be used as a screwdriver. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
25. 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
26. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a refund from the IRS, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with. - From a Washington Post word contest
27. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. - Oscar Wilde
28. It’s a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. - Albert Camus
29. It’s not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It’s the customer who pays the wages. - Henry Ford
30. Lack of money is the root of all evil. - George Bernard Shaw
31. Money can’t buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy. - Spike Milligan
32. Money can’t buy happiness, but neither can poverty. - Leo Rosten
33. Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy. - Groucho Marx
34. Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money. – Author Unknown
35. Money is something you have to make in case you don’t die. - Max Asnas
36. Money is the only substance which can keep a cold world from nicknaming a citizen ‘Hey, you!’ - Wilson Mizner
37. Money isn’t everything, but it’s a long way ahead of what comes next. - Edmund Stockdale
38. Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the “gotta have it” scale. - Zig Ziglar
39. Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort. - Helen Gurley Brown
40. My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income. - Errol Flynn
41. Part of the $10 million I spent on gambling, part on booze and part on women. The rest I spent foolishly. - George Raft
42. People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage. - Doug Larson
43. Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you’ll be surprised at how little you have. - Ernest Haskins
44. 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
45. That money talks I’ll not deny, I heard it once: It said, “Goodbye.” - Richard Armour
46. The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money costs less. - Brendon Francis
47. 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
48. The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it. - Edith Wharton
49. The waste of money cures itself, for soon there is no more to waste. - M.W. Harrison
50. There are several ways in which to apportion the family income, all of them unsatisfactory. - Robert Benchley
51. There are three ways of losing money: Racing is the quickest, women the most pleasant, and farming the most certain. - Lord Amherst
52. There is a very easy way to return from a casino with a small fortune: go there with a large one. - Jack Yelton
53. 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
54. 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
55. We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. - Ronald Reagan
56. 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
57. 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
58. While money can’t buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery. – Author Unknown
59. Whoever said money can’t buy happiness simply didn’t know where to go shopping. - Bo Derek
60. With money in you pocket, you are wise and you are handsome and you sing well, too. - Yiddish Proverb

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