music

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.
~ Miles Davis ~

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
~ Victor Hugo ~

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
~ Ludwig Van Beethoven ~

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
~ Ludwig Van Beethoven ~

If music be the food of love, play on.
~ Shakespeare, Twelfth Night ~

I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.
~ James Brown ~

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.
~ Billy Gibbons ~

If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.
~ Zimbabwe Proverb ~

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
~ Igor Stravinsky ~

business

1 . ... Decision Making

• I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. (Walt Disney)
  
  
• Keep it simple, stupid. (KISS)
  
  
• I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
  
  
• Stick to the knitting. (Proverb)
  
  
• Every decision you make is a mistake. (Edward Dahlberg)
  
  
• For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. (H L Mencken)
  
  

• A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything. (Bernard's Bingo Magazine)
  
  
• The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything. (Theodore Roosevelt)
  
  
• A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. (Mitch Ratliffe)
  
  
• More can be learned from what works than from what fails. (Rene Dubois)
  
  
• Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. (Robert Louis Stephenson)
  
  
• May you live in interesting times. (Chinese curse)
  
  
• Only one thing is certain - that is, nothing is certain. If this statement is true, it is also false. (Ancient Paradox)
  
  
• Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. (Will Rogers)
  
  
• Behold the turtle, he makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. (Bruce Levin)
  
  
• Patience in the present, faith in the future, and joy in the doing. (George Perera, MD)
  
  
• There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch. (Joseph Addison)
  
  
• There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. (Goethe)
  
  
• Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight. (Thomas Carlyle)
  
  
• A moments insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
  
  
• Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it. (Henry Ford)
  
  
• Think. (IBM slogan)
  
  
• If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. (George Patton)
  
  
• Imagine. (Apple slogan)
  
  
• Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness. (Cullen Hightower)
  
  
• If you find a good solution and become attached to it, the solution may become your next problem. (Robert Anthony)
  
  
• Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. (Sun Tzu)
  
  
• Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal (Unknown)
  
  
• The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand. (Sun Tzu)
  
  
• If a man will begin with certainties he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties. (Francis Bacon)
  
  
• Confidence is what you feel before you comprehend the situation. (Proverb)
  
  
• Never tell me the odds. (Han Solo, Starfighter)
  
  
• She didn't know it couldn't be done, so she went ahead and did it. (Mary's Almanac)
  
  
• The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all. (Niccolo Machiavelli)
  
  
• "No, no !" said the Queen. "Sentence first - verdict afterwards". (Lewis Carroll)
  
  
• When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact. (Warren Buffet)
  
  
• The best executive has the sense enough to pick good men, and the self-restraint enough to keep from meddling. (Theodore Roosevelt)
  
  
• An overburdened, overstretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people (Jack Welch)
  
  
• Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenity. (General George S Patton Jr)
  
  
• The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away. (Walter Wriston)

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2 . ... Investment

• Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty. (Adam Smith)
  
  
• Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly. (De la Vega)
  
  
• No price is too low for a bear or too high for a bull. (Stock Exchange Proverb)
  
  
• Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in. (John D. Rockerfeller)
  
  
• No one was ever ruined by taking a profit. (Stock Exchange Maxim)
  
  
• Cut your losses and let your profits run. (American proverb)
  
  
• Our favourite holding period is forever. (Warren Buffet)
  
  
• Take every gain without showing remorse about missed profits, because an eel may escape sooner than you think. (De la Vega)
  
  
• Profits on the exchange are the treasures of goblins. At one time they may be carbuncle stones, then coals, then diamonds, then flint stones, then morning dew, then tears. (De la Vega)
  
  
• In the state of nature profit is the measure of right. (Thomas Hobbes, 1651)
  
  
• Whoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumours so little founded on truth (De la Vega)

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3 . ... Dreams & Visions

• Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. (Jonathan Swift)
  
  
• Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. (Joseph Campbell)
  
  
• Dreams are necessary to life. (Anais Nin)
  
  
• If one advances in the direction of his dreams, one will meet with success unexpected in common hours. (Henry David Thoreau)
  
  
• The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet. (Theodore Hesburgh)
  
  
• Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream of things that never were and say why not. (John F. Kennedy)
  
  
• If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be. (Anonymous)
  
  
• Dreams have their place in managerial activity, but they need to be kept severely under control. (Lord Weinstock)
  
  
• I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams. (Madonna)
  
  
• Imagination is more important than knowledge. (Albert Einstein)
  
  
• If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it. (William Arthur Ward)
  
  
• The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size. (Oliver W. Holmes)
  
  
• Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open. (Sir James Dewar)
  
  
• Ideas are like stars, you will not touch them with your hands. (Carl Schurz)
  
  
• The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting. (George Nelson)
  
  
• An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it. (Richard Bach)
  
  
• Information is the seed for an idea, and only grows when it's watered. (Heinz V. Bergen)
  
  
• Imagine. (The Beatles)
  
  
• Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge. (Abraham Joshua Heschel)
• I invent nothing, I rediscover. (Rodin)
  
  
• The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. (Arthur Koestler)
  
  
• To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything. (Anatole France)
  
  
• What is now proved was once only imagin'd. (William Blake)
  
  
• Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish (Jean de la Fontaine)
  
  
• A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm. (Charles M. Schwab)
  
  
• One good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing. (Gene Brown)
  
  
• All great truths begin as blasphemies. (George Bernard Shaw)
  
  
• Half the lies people tell me aren't true. (Yogi Berra)
  
  
• Facts are stubborn things. (Alain Rene Lesage)
  
  
• The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is. (Winston Churchill)
  
  
• Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking. (John Maynard Keynes)
  
  
• Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens. (George Lois)
  
  
• Security is mostly superstition... Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. (Helen Keller)
  
  
• We may affirm that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion. (George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel)
  
  
• Rules of the Garage: Believe you can change the world. Work quickly, keep the tools unlocked, work whenever. Know when to work alone and when to work together. Share - tools, ideas. Trust your colleagues. No politics. No bureaucracy. (These are ridiculous in a garage.) The customer defines a job well done. Radical ideas are not bad ideas. Invent different ways of working. Make a contribution every day. If it doesn't contribute, it doesn't leave the garage. Believe that together we can do anything. Invent. (Hewlett Packard advert.)

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4 . ... Making Progress

• There is nothing more difficult...than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. (Niccolo Machiavelli)
  
  
• If you want truly to understand something, try to change it. (Kurt Lewin)
  
  
• Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. (Unknown)
  
  
• You cannot travel on the path until you become the path itself. (Gautama Bouddha)
  
  
• There is no top. There are always further heights to reach. (Jascha Heifetz)
  
  
• For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions. (Lao-tse)
  
  
• It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races. (Mark Twain)
  
  
• It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult. (Seneca)
  
  
• It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved. (Irwin Edman)
  
  
• Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. (Albert Einstein)
  
  
• Every wall is a door. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
  
  
• Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal. (E. Joseph Cossman)
  
  
• It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final. (Anonymous)
  
  
• No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would. (Lonny Starr)
  
  
• Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. (Vince Lombardi)
  
  
• Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't. (Peter Drucker)
  
  
• Necessity is the mother of invention. (Proverb)
  
  
• Necessity is the mother of taking chances. (Mark Twain)

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5 . ... Taxes

• The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward. (John Maynard Keynes)
  
  
• The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall. (Denis Healey)
  
  
• We don't pay taxes. The little people pay taxes. (Leona Helmsley)
  
  
• The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing. (J. B. Colbert)
  
  
• Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old. (Edmund Burke)
  
  
• Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain. (A. P. Herbert)
  
  
• Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself. (Italian proverb)
  
  
• Be at the pains of putting down every single item of expenditure whatsoever every day which could possibly be twisted into a professional expense and remember to lump in all the doubtfulls. (Hilaire Belloc)
  
  
• My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man. (Glenda Jackson)
  
  
• There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist - the taxidermist leaves the hide. (Mortimer Caplan)
  
  
• (Tax) has made more liars out of the American people than golf (Will Rogers)
  
  
• The three most frequently told lies in the world... The cheque is in the post... I'll still respect you afterwards ..... I'm from the Revenue and I'm here to help you. (Unknown)
  
  
• There is no such thing as a good tax. (Winston Churchill)
  
  
• In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. (Benjamin Franklin)
  
  
• There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space progamme - your tax-dollar will go further. (Werner von Braun)

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6 . ... Diligence

• It's tough trying to keep your feet on the ground, your head above the clouds, your nose to the grindstone, your shoulder to the wheel, your finger on the pulse, your eye on the ball and your ear to the ground. (Based on proverbs)
  
  
• Rise early, work hard, strike oil. (J Paul Getty)
  
  
• Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night. ( Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
  
  
• The highest reward for person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. (John Ruskin)
  
  
• The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb grey hairs (Irish proverb)
  
  
• A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce (Grandma's Axiom)
  
  
• A wise man turns chance into good fortune. (Thomas Fuller. Gnomologia, 1732)
  
  
• A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence. (Chinese proverb)
  
  
• Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get (Ray Kroc)
  
  
• I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. (Stephen Leacock)
  
  
• Success is more attitude than aptitude. (Anonymous)
  
  
• If, at first, you don't succeed, try again. (Proverb)
  
  
• If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment. (Los Angeles Times Syndicate)
  
  
• Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it. (Sam Ewing)
  
  
• Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. (Mark Twain)
  
  
• Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. (Jim Ryun)
  
  
• The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else. (Martina Navratilova)
  
  
• Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it. (Margaret Thatcher)
  
  
• Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit. (Bern Williams)
  
  
• Stubbornness does have its helpful features. You always know what you're going to be thinking tomorrow. (Glen Beaman)
  
  
• Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing. (Bits & Pieces)
  
  
• All of us could take a lesson from the weather, it pays no attention to criticism. (North DeKalb Kiwanis Club Beacon)
  
  
• The greatest power is often simple patience. (E. Joseph Cossman)
  
  
• Perserverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. (Walter Elliott)
  
  
• Life is like riding a bicycle: you don't fall of unless you stop pedaling. (Claude Pepper)
  
  
• People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground. (Marcel Proust)
  
  
• Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. (Henry Ford)
  
  
• A stumble may prevent a fall. (English Proverb)
  
  
• It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can. (Sydney Smith)
  
  
• Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations. (Steve Jobs)
  
  
• A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. (Albert Einstein)
  
  
• Success is more attitude than aptitude. (Anonymous)
  
  
• There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. (Indira Gandhi)
  
  
• Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. (Mark Twain)
  
  
• Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. (Mortimer Caplin)
  
  
• Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot. (Leo Durocher)
  
  
• The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. (Winston Churchill)

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7 . ... Cash

• Cashflow is the movement of money in and out of a business. (Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary)
  
  
• Happiness is a positive cash flow. (Fred Adler - Venture capitalist)
  
  
• Yesterday is a cancelled cheque. Tomorrow is a promissary note. Today is cash. (Unknown)
  
  
• Ah, take the Cash in hand and waive the Rest. (Edward Fitzgerald)
  
  
• Whoever has the gold makes all the rules. (The Golden Rule)
  
  
• Revenue is vanity....margin is sanity....cash is king. (Unknown)
  
  
• Profit is an illusion, cashflow is fact. (Unknown)
  
  
• Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact. (Unknown)

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8 . ... Marketing

• If a man can .... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
  
  
• The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. (Unknown)
  
  
• Never make the mistake of assuming the critters will beat a path to your door. (John P. Mascotte)
  
  
• The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not (Niccolo Machiavelli)
  
  
• It's just called "The Bible" now - we dropped the word "Holy" to give it a more mass-market appeal. (Hodder & Stoughton, Publisher)
  
  
• Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners. (Jimmy Stewart)
  
  
• The market is a place set apart where men may deceive each other (Diogenes Laertius)
  
  
• Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

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9 . ... Buying & Selling

• There are more fools among buyers than among sellers. (French proverb)
  
  
• When you go to buy, use your eyes not your ears. (Czech proverb)
  
  
• The buyer needs a hundred eyes; the seller but one. (Italian proverb)
  
  
• A man trying to sell a blind horse always praises its feet. (German proverb)
  
  
• Everyone lives by selling something. (R L Stevenson)
  
  
• The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it. (Oscar Wilde)
  
  
• Last week is the time you should have either bought or sold, depending on what you didn't do. (Anon)

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10 . ... Who's Who

• A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination. (A. W. Pinero 1893)
  
  
• An enginer is one who can do with a dollar what any bungler can do with two. (Economic Theory of Railway Location. 1887)
  
  
• The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound. (Lord Justice Topes)
  
  
• Good bankers, like good tea, can only be appreciated when they are in hot water. (Jaffar Hussein, Governor, Malaysian Central Bank)
  
  
• A banker is a man who lends you an umbrella when the weather is fair, and takes it away from you when it rains. (Anon)
  
  
• A banker: the person who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it rains. (Mark Twain)
  
  
• I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so. (Stephen B Leacock)
  
  
• Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker. (Percy Bysshe Shelly)
  
  
• I always said that mega-mergers were for megalomaniacs. (David Ogilvy)
  
  
• Behind every successful man lurks a truly amazed ex-mother-in-law. (John Chrusciel)
  
  
• The graduate with a Science degree asks, "Why does it work?" The graduate with an Engineering degree asks, "How does it work?" The graduate with an Accounting degree asks, "How much will it cost?" The graduate with a Liberal Arts degree asks, "Do you want fries with that?"
  
  
• Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set. (Fran Lebowitz)
  
  
• Psychologists are scientists as much as coverted savages are Christians. (Georges Politza)

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11 . ... Commerce

• A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it. (Bob Hope)
  
  
• Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. ( Thomas Jefferson)
  
  
• It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit. (Anatole France)
  
  
• I don't want to tell you how much insurance I carry with the Prudential, but all I can say is: when I go, they go too. (Jack Benny)
  
  
• Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany. (Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe)
  
  
• Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity. (Karl Marx)
  
  
• Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears. (Robert W. Sarnoff)

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12 . ... Credit

• The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor. (James Howell)
  
  
• No man's credit is as good as his money. (Sinner Sermons, 1926)
  
  
• He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world. (George Herbert 1639)
  
  
• Out of debt, out of danger. (Proverb)
  
  
• God often pays debts without money. (Irish proverb)
  
  
• If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some (Benjamin Franklin)
  
  
• Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with. (Artemus Ward)
  
  
• I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable. (William Shakespeare)
  
  
• The ability to sign a cheque is the least reliable guide to a company's fitness. (David Plowright)
  
  
• The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'check enclosed' (Dorothy Parker)

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13 . ... Planning

• Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future. (Neils Bohr)
  
  
• We always plan too much and always think too little. (Joseph Schumper)
  
  
• It's not the plan that is important, it's the planning. (Dr Graeme Edwards)
  
  
• Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression. (Sir John Harvey-Jones)
  
  
• The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today (Elbert Hubbard)
  
  
• The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well. (Sir William Osler)
  
  
• The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future. (John Maynard Keynes)
  
  
• When men speak of the future, the Gods laugh. (Chinese Proverb)
  
  
• It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see. (Sir Winston Churchill)
  
  
• Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window. (Peter Drucker)
  
  
• To predict the future, we need logic; but we also need faith and imagination, which can sometimes defy logic itself. Arthur C Clarke
  
  
• It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. (James Thurber)
  
  
• Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know. (Louis Armstrong)

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14. ... Money

• Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it. (Henry Ford 1931)
  
  
• Money is like muck - not good unless spread. (Francis Bacon, Essays XV, 1625)
  
  
• Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell. (Clint Murchison Jnr)
  
  
• Money is flat and meant to be piled up. (Scottish proverb)
  
  
• Money is like a sixth sense, without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five. (Somerset Maugham)
  
  
• Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. (Woody Allen)
  
  
• Money can't buy friends, but it buys a better class of enemy. (Spike Milligan)
  
  
• Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and sucessful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis. (George Bernard Shaw)
  
  
• Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. (J. K. Galbraith)
  
  
• Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life. (Gottfried Reinhardt)
  
  
• Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not. (John Kenneth Galbraith)
  
  
• Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did. (James Baldwin)
  
  
• For the love of money is the root of all evil. (Bible: I Timothy)
  
  
• Lack of money is the root of all evil. (George Bernard Shaw)
  
  
• It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil, the want of money is so quite as truly. (Samuel Butler)
  
  
• A fool & his money are easily parted. (Irish Proverb)
  
  
• A fool and his money are soon parted. What I want to know is how they got together in the first place. (BBC's Cyril Fletcher)
  
  
• Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves. (Proverb)
  
  
• Easy come, easy go. (Proverb)
  
  
• Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. (Oliver Wendell Holms)
  
  
• Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody. (Agatha Christie)
  
  
• Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money. (Livy, History of Rome XXX, c.10)
  
  
• Without money, fame is dead. (Irish Proverb)
  
  
• The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any. (Katherine Whitehorn)
  
  
• You can be young without money but you can't be old without it. (Tennessee Williams)
  
  
• It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think that they can be happy without money. (Albert Camus)
  
  
• You don't seem to realise that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help. (Jean Kerr)
  
  
• Within certain limits it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry. (George Orwell)
  
  
• But then one is always excited by descriptions of money changing hands. It's much more fundamental than sex. (Nigel Dennis)
  
  
• Nothing links man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of cash. (Walter Richard Sickert)
  
  
• Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does. (Jane Austen)
  
  
• He that wants money, means, and content, is without three good friends. (William Shakespeare)
  
  
• For I don't care too much for money. For money can't buy me love. (John Lennon)
  
  
• I'm tired of Love: I'm still more tired of Rhyme. But money gives me pleasure all the Time. (Hilaire Belloc)
  
  
• No one would have remembered the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions. He had money as well. (Margaret Thatcher)
  
  
• Thirst after the drink and sorrow after the money. (Irish Proverb)
  
  
• A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. (Bible: Ecclesiastes)
  
  
• Clearly money has something to do with life - In fact, they've a lot in common, if you enquire: You can't put off being young until you retire. (Philip Larkin)
  
  
• Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life. (Gottfried Reinhardt)
  
  
• The trouble, Mr. Goldwyn is that you are only interested in art and I am only interested in money. (George Bernard Shaw)
  
  
• But it is pretty to see what money will do. (Samuel Pepys)
  
  
• Money doesn't talk, it swears. (Bob Dylan)
  
  
• I think money is on the way out. (Anita Loos, 1956)
  
  
• How pleasant it is to have money. (Arthur Hugh Clough)
  
  
• I can't afford to waste my time making money. (Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz)
  
  
• If possible, honestly, if not, somehow, make money. (Horace)
  
  
• There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money. (Samuel Johnson)
  
  
• Put money in thy purse. (William Shakespeare)
  
  
• Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can. (John Wesley)
  
  
• Enrich yourself. (Francois Guizot)
• My boy...always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you. (Damon Runyon)
  
  
• Some people's money is merited, and other people's is inherited. (Ogden Nash)
  
  
• He married money and got a woman with it. (Irish Proverb)
  
  
• Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your mind, and there you are. (Dorothy Parker)
  
  
• What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. (Samuel Butler)
  
  
• What's a thousand dollars? Mere chicken feed. A poultry matter. (Groucho Marx)
  
  
• Do they allow tipping on the boat? Yes, sir. Then you won't need the ten cents I was going to give you. (Groucho Marx)
  
  
• Pieces of eight! (Robert Louis Stevenson)
  
  
• I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year. (William Makepeace Thackeray)
  
  
• If you can actually count your money then you are not really a rich man. (Paul Getty II )
  
  
• After a certain point money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts. (Aristotle Onassis)
  
  
• All that good money going on a mere picture, when it might have been spent on something really useful, like a drinking fountain or a public lavatory. (Aldous Huxley)
  
  
• Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain. (A. P. Herbert)
  
  
• Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself. (Italian Proverb)
  
  
• My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man. (Glenda Jackson)
  
  
• A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it. (Bob Hope)
  
  
• It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit. (Anatole France)
  
  
• No man's credit is as good as his money. (Sinner Sermons, 1926)
  
  
• God often pays debts without money. (Irish Proverb)
  
  
• If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some. (Benjamin Franklin)
  
  
• Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with. (Artemus Ward)
  
  
• I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable. (William Shakespeare)
  
  
• We all know how the size of sums of money seems to vary in a remarkable way according as they are being paid in or paid out. (Julian Huxley)

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