Quotes by American Authors - Page 131

Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.
Max Asnas
I don't like money actually but it quiets my nerves.
Joe Louis
There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What the country really needs is a good five-cent nickle.
Franklin P. Adams
Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.
Joey Adams
Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.
Roger Starr
The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.
William Feather
The darkest hour of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
Horace Greeley
Philanthropist: a rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.
Ambrose Bierce
I haven't heard of anybody who wants to stop living on account of the cost.
Kin Hubbard
I'm so happy to be rich I'm willing to take all the consequences.
Howard Ahmanson
A man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone.
Henry David Thoreau
There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money and that is to enjoy earning it.
Edgar Watson Howe
Some people's money is merited and other people's is inherited.
Ogden Nash
Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.
Henry Ward Beecher
If a man has money it is usually a sign too that he knows how to take care of it don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.
Edgar Watson Howe
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Thomas Paine
The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
Jessamyn West
Most men would rather be charged with malice than with making a blunder.
Josh Billings
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Let us be of good cheer however remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
James Russell Lowell
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above it.
Washington Irving
Cowardice as distinguished from panic is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
Ernest Hemingway
Shall we judge a country by the majority or by the minority? By the minority surely.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.
Carl T. Rowan
It is always the minorities that hold the key of progess it is always through those who are unafraid to be different that advance comes to human society.
Raymond B. Fosdick
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection - they have many friends and few enemies.
Wendell Phillips
We must indeed all hang together or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.
Benjamin Franklin
The thing we have to fear in this country to my way of thinking is the influence of the organized minorities because somehow or other the great majority does not seem to organize. They seem to feel that they are going to be effective because of their own strength but they give no expression of it.
Alfred E. Smith
God is Mind and God is infinite hence all is Mind.
Mary Baker Eddy
Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore.
Edgar Allan Poe
Being all fashioned of the self-same dust. Let us be merciful as well as just.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When I was young I used to have successes with women because I was young. Now I have successes with women because I am old. Middle age was the hardest part.
Artur Rubinstein
In his private heart no man much respects himself.
Mark Twain
Men build bridges and throw ra ilroads across deserts and yet they contend successfully that the job of sewing on a button is beyond them. Accordingly they don't have to sew buttons.
Heywood Broun
Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good as someone else.
William Saroyan
The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
Helen Rowland
Dennis Thatcher husband of Margaret Thatcher when asked who wore the pants in his house said "I do and I also wash and iron them." I only like two kinds of men domestic and foreign.
Mae West
I want to know why if men rule the world they don't stop wearing neckties.
Linda Ellerbee
You know who must be very secure in their masculinity? Male ladybugs.
Jay Leno
If the world were a logical place men would ride sidesaddle.
Rita Mae Brown
Men who drink herbal teas are seldom serial killers.
Rita Rudner
Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.
Linda Ellerbee
Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
Mark Twain
Macho does not prove mucho.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Boys don't make passes at female smart asses.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a male is when he's a baby.
Jacob Braude
If you ever leave me I'll go with you.
Rene Taylor
For a single woman preparing for company means wiping the lipstick off the milk carton.
Elayne Boosler
Be pretty if you can be witty if you must be agreeable if it kills you.
Elsie de Wolfe
Tell me about yourself - your struggles your dreams your telephone number.
Peter Arno
A woman is like a tea bag - only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.
Nancy Reagan
What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?
Erma Bombeck
It women knew what we were thinking they'd never stop slapping us.
Larry Miller
Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women and even the most foolish women are wise about men.
Theodor Reik
Though statisticians in our time have never kept the score man wants a great deal here below and Woman even more.
James Thurber
Men don't get cellulite. God might just be a man.
Rita Rudner
Men like cars women like clothes. Women only like cars because they take them to clothes.
Rita Rudner
A man should be taller older heavier uglier and hoarser than his wife.
Edgar Watson Howe
The double standard of morality will survive in this world so long as the woman whose husband has been lured away is favoured with the sympathetic tears of other women and a man whose wife has made off is laughed at by other men.
H.L. Mencken