What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.
—Henny Youngman
All I ask is the chance to prove that money can’t make me happy.
—Spike Milligan
This planet has—or rather had—a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn’t the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
—Douglas Adams
The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.
—Katharine Whitehorn
Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy.
—Spike Milligan
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships
—W. E. B. Du Bois in The Souls of Black Folk
"Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
—Ken Hakuta
What sublime thoughts filled my mind as I bent to the wind, and trudged through the gorse and heather? I will tell you. I was wondering how much money I shall make out of my next book. Thus does nature keep us in touch with the great realities of existence.
—J.B. Morton
I am sometimes asked, “Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?” I answer, “I am working at the roots.”
—George T. Angell
I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.
—George Best
The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.
—Richard Bach
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
—Aristotle
Anybody who has doubts about the ingenuity or the resourcefulness of a plumber never got a bill from one.
—George Meany
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for—in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.
—Ellen Goodman
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
—Stephen Leacock