Quotes by Authors - Page 137

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
Philanthropist: a rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.
Ambrose Bierce
A man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone.
Henry David Thoreau
Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?
Anonymous
To be clever enough to get all that money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton
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
Inflation is determined by money supply growth.
Roger Bootle
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
God makes and apparel shapes: but it's money that finishes the man.
Thomas Fuller
But then one is always excited by descriptions of money changing hands. It's much more fundamental than sex.
Nigel Dennis
Be the business never so painful you may have it done for money.
Thomas Fuller
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
Lord Chesterfield
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 a sort of bear while your ring is through its nose it will even dance under your cudgel but should the ring slip and you lose your hold the brute will turn and rend you.
Jane Porter
It's over and can't be helped and that's one consolation as they always say in Turkey when they cut the wrong man's head off.
Charles Dickens
Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day like those of a baseball player.
Anonymous
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
A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life and find solace in fantasy.
G.K. Chesterton
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above it.
Washington Irving
There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with encores.
Anonymous
Cowardice as distinguished from panic is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
Ernest Hemingway
He that is down need fear no fall.
John Bunyan
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
The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states - Israel Athens Florence Elizabethan England.
Dean William R. Inge
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
Among the attributes of God although they are all equal mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice.
Miguel de Cervantes
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Winston Churchill
In his private heart no man much respects himself.
Mark Twain
Celibacy bestows on a man the qualified freedom of a besieged city where one sometimes has to eat rats.
Sean O'Faolain
Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good as someone else.
William Saroyan
To be a man will continue to demand a heroic heart as long as mankind is not quite human.
Julius Fucik
Men's men: be they gentle or simple they're much of a muchness.
George Eliot
Men become old but they never become good.
Oscar Wilde
The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.
Michel de Montaigne
What is a highbrow? He is a man who has found something more interesting than women.
Edgar Wallace
The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.
Lord Longford
Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
André Gide
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
Outside every thin girl is a fat man trying to get in.
Anonymous
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
Boys don't make passes at female smart asses.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Why did God make man before he made woman? Because he didn't want any advice on how to do it.
Anonymous
The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a male is when he's a baby.
Jacob Braude
Be pretty if you can be witty if you must be agreeable if it kills you.
Elsie de Wolfe
What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?
Erma Bombeck
A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Though statisticians in our time have never kept the score man wants a great deal here below and Woman even more.
James Thurber
Flirtation - attention without intention.
Max O'Neil
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
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
Oscar Wilde