Showing posts with label Jackie Mason. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jackie Mason. Show all posts

Monday, October 4, 2010

Is Chapter Eleven the result of following the Ten Commandments?

Sex Workers Rights ProtestImage by Eliya via FlickrOur accounting department is the office that has the little red box on the wall saying, “In case of emergency break glass.” And inside are two tickets to Brazil. – Robert Orben




Auditors are the people who go in after the war is lost and bayonet the wounded. – P. Rubin



If my business was legitimate, I would deduct a substantial percentage for depreciation of my body. – Xaviera Hollander



Budgeting is a system of additions and subtractions more honored in breach than in observance. – Eugene E. Brussell



I don’t know how much money I’ve got. I did ask the accountant how much it came to. I wrote it down on a bit of paper but I’ve lost the bit of paper. – John Lennon



Did you ever hear of a kid playing accountant – even if he wanted to be one. – Jackie Mason



Is Chapter Eleven the result of following the Ten Commandments? – anonymous




Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Benjamin Franklin - An Old Wife, an Old Dog, and Ready Money

An illustration from Franklin's paper on "...Image via Wikipedia

I have all the money I’ll ever need if I die by four O’clock. – Henny Youngman

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something. – Jackie Mason

I don’t want to be a millionaire, I just want to live like one. Bernard (Toots) Shor

A fool and his money are soon parted. What I want to know is how they got together in the first place. – Cyril Fletcher

I’d like to live like a poor man with lots of money. - Pablo Picasso

There are three faithful friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. – Benjamin Franklin

In the bad old days, there were three easy ways of losing money – racing being he quickest, women the pleasantest, and farming the most certain. – William Pitt Armstrong

A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking about real money. – Everett M. Dirksen (U.S. Senator)

The next time you see a headline about the government spending a billion dollars on some project, think about it this way: If you spent $100,000 every day of the week, it would take you more than 27years to spend a billion dollars. – Louise E. Boone