Dollars and Sense

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A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money. - Everett Dirksen

 

A budget is just a method of worrying before you spend money, as well as afterward.

 

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.

 

A penny saved is ridiculous.

 

About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends. - Herbert Hoover

 

Budget: something we go without to stay within.

 

Every increased possession loads us with new weariness. - John Ruskin

 

Fortune does not change men; it unmasks them. - Suzanne Necker

 

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money:

he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it. - W. Somerset Maugham

 

He that is of the opinion money will do everything

may well be suspected of doing everything for money. - Benjamin Franklin

 

He who is not contended with what he has,

would not be contended with what he would like to have. - Socrates

 

I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. - Bill Hoest

 

It's not hard to meet expenses. They're everywhere.

 

Money buys you everything except the chance to do it again. - Matthew Clayfield

 

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty. - Leo Rosten

 

Money is like muck, not good except it be spread. - Francis Bacon

 

Money isn't everything - it isn't even enough!

 

Money may not go as far as it used to, but we have just as much trouble getting it back.

 

Money wouldn't be so important if everybody didn't want some.

 

Never spend your money before you have it. - Thomas Jefferson

 

Save a little money each month and at the end of the year

you'll be surprised at how little you have. - Ernest Haskins

 

Taxes could be much worse ... suppose we had to pay on what we think we're worth.

 

The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

- Sir Henry Taylor

 

The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down. - Flip Wilson

 

The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it back in your pocket.

 

These days an income is something you can't live without ... or within. - Tom Wilson

 

Those who are poor smile at what they have

yet those who have good fortune frown at what they do not have.

 

When your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep is your downfall.

 

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