The Parent of Prodigality

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Gambling is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality. – Charles Caleb Colton




Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars. – Hobart Brown



Money is the fruit of evil and often is the root of it. – Henry Fielding



Money is paper blood. – Bob Hope



Money is an article which may be used as a universal passport to everywhere except Heaven, and as a universal provider of everything but happiness. – Wall Street Journal



Money is the only substance which can keep a cold world from nicknaming a citizen, “Hey, you!”

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Darkly Comical Quotes

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We work day after day, not to finish things; but to make the future better – because we will spend the rest of our lives there. – Charles F. Kettering

Ideas are the mightiest influence on earth. One great thought breathed into a man may regenerate him. – Channing

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason. – Henry Fielding

There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows. – Farrar

Five minutes, just before going to sleep, given to a bit of directed imagination regarding achievement possibilities of the morrow, will steadily and increasingly bear fruit, particularly if all ideas of difficulty, worry or fear are resolutely rules out and replaced by those of accomplishment and smiling courage. – Frederick Pierce

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another, and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it. – J.M. Barrie

Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace or happiness. – Henrik Ibsen

If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people. – Oriental Proverb