Anglo-Irish playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan's financial affairs were constantly in disorder, and debt was a chronic state with him. "Thank God, that's settled," he is reported to have said, handing over an iou to a creditor. —Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Now that he was rich he was not thought ignorant anymore, but simply eccentric. —Mavis Gallant More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I had a hard time at the bank today. I tried to take out a loan, and they pulled a real attitude with me. Apparently they won't accept the voices in my head as references. —Steve Altman More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People keep telling us about their love affairs, when what we really want to know is how much money they make and how they manage on it. —Mignon McLaughlin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Unless we do change our whole way of thought about work, I do not think we shall ever escape from the appalling squirrel-cage of economic confusion in which we have been madly turning for the last three centuries or so, the cage in which we landed ourselves by acquiescing in a social system based upon envy and avarice. —Dorothy L. Sayers More about this quote Tags: economics work envy avarice Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave driver. —Ambrose Bierce More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Privilege, almost by definition, requires that someone pay the price for its enjoyment. —Paula Ross More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence. —Hannah Arendt More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Credit has done a thousand times more to enrich mankind than all the gold mines in the world. It has exalted labor, stimulated manufacture, and pushed commerce over every sea. —Daniel Webster More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
No social system in any country will bring us happiness, health, and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism. —Clement R. Attlee More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Money is a dream. It is a piece of paper on which is imprinted in invisible ink the dream of all the things it will buy, all the trinkets and all the power over others. —David T. Bazelon More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
For every person who has ever lived there will come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours. —Pam Brown More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Environmentalism suddenly struck me as the most obvious philosophy imaginable: Let us not ruin forever where we live and work and breathe and eat. Earth's future inhabitants will no doubt look upon our current environmental practices — maintained despite all manner of evidence that doing so will result in planetary ruin — roughly the way we look upon eighteenth-century surgery. And that is if we, and they, are very lucky. —Tom Bissell More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am I plus my surroundings, and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself. —José Ortega y Gasset More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Imagine that the whole world belongs to you. The birch trees in New Hampshire's White Mountains are yours, and so are the cirrus clouds in the western sky at dusk and the black sand on the beaches of Hawaii's Big Island. You own everything, my dear sovereign — the paintings in all the museums of the world, as well as the Internet and the wild horses and the roads. Please take good care of it all, ok? Be an enlightened monarch who treats your domain with reverent responsibility. —Rob Brezsny More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email