Checkbook Quotes

#1. Just because you have checks in the checkbook doesn't mean that you have money in the bank, and Washington has failed to understand that.

Mike Bouchard

#2. When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my checkbook.

Edward Abbey

#3. If you spend five minutes with me or watch me try to balance my checkbook, you can only imagine the disaster I would make of anyone's legal issues.

Greg Giraldo

#4. Between the calendar and checkbook, ones priorities are laid bare.

L.R.W. Lee

#5. Her calculations were sometimes a little fuzzy, for the same reason that her checkbook sometimes did not balance; Becky Vesey (as she had been known as a child) had never really mastered the multiplication tables and she was inclined to confuse sevens with nines.

Robert A. Heinlein

#6. She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.

Tommy Manville

#7. It takes a checkbook to change the world

Mother Teresa

#8. The way I look at it, checkbook love is better than no love at all.

Stephen King

#9. Huguette had a fairy-tale checkbook, one that was refilled whenever it ran out of magic beans.

Bill Dedman

#10. May God want for man to be able to be a child again to understand that he is mistaken if he thinks he can find happiness with a checkbook.

Facundo Cabral

#11. Her checkbook catches his eye. He takes it and hides it in the back of the freezer, underneath a bag of frozen lima beans. If she can freeze his account, he can freeze hers.

Mary Amato

#12. If you are not using your smile, you're like someone with a million dollars in the bank and no checkbook.

Les Giblin

#13. Go to your checkbook and see what you spend money on. In an instant, you will know what is important to you because your money goes toward it.

Larry Winget

#14. If you feel driven to feed the poor, get your checkbook out and keep your tyrannical mouth shut about it.

Lewis Goldberg

#15. The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.

Groucho Marx

#16. That's right, bitches. I couldn't balance my checkbook and didn't know the capital of Iowa but I apparently gave amazing head. I could die a happy sexpot.

Alessandra Torre

#17. Foreign relations is an open book
generally a checkbook.

Will Rogers

#18. The fact is, you can say you love God and sing that you trust God and put him first, but your checkbook is where you can show just how much God's grace means to you.

Rick Warren

#19. If you look at a person's checkbook and datebook, you know what their religion really is.

Ravi Ravindra

#20. Any dope with a checkbook can buy a company. It's what you do afterward that matters.

Henry Silverman

#21. There are people out there who've paid good money to hear me. I always figure when all you got is the deposit slip, you better be real nice to the folks that have the checkbook.

Thomas Cobb

#22. I wanted to build a tool for my generation: people 20 to 40 who don't want to spend time balancing a checkbook or checking multiple financial institutions' websites. Mint does just that, giving comprehensive, quick insights into a user's finances from their computer, mobile phone and/or tablet.

Aaron Patzer

#23. Rather than saying, 'My checking account is a wreck,' change it to 'I will learn how to track my spending and balance my checkbook.'

Suze Orman

#24. To balance my own checkbook each month, I simply record whatever is necessary in the following manner: '37 cents to cover embezzlement by somebody at the bank.

Teresa Bloomingdale

#25. Really, if that's the case, you need to stop letting your mother dress you funny. It's hard to take anyone serious as a killer when he looks like an investment banker. The only part of me that's nervous is my checkbook. (Kat)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#26. Restraining, saving, assuring your checkbook balance ... what does all taht amount to? If I go broke one day I'll just take out loans

Novala Takemoto

#27. You have a bad memory for details. You can tell her the date of the Spanish Armada, but you couldn't even guess at the balance of your checkbook.

Jay McInerney

#28. Family is family, and business is business. I love the boy, but not that much."
"Who are you kidding?" Heath had said. "You'd walk over coals for him."
"Yes, but I'd leave my checkbook behind while I was doing it.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#29. Give me five minutes with a person's checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is.

Billy Graham

#30. The Chinese banking system is built on quicksand and that's the one thing a lot of people don't realize. Everybody seems to think it is a free and clear open checkbook. It's not. The banking system in China is extremely fragile.

James Chanos

#31. My grandmother Izzy taught me to balance her checkbook when I was 6 years old. She would sign the checks after I paid the bills. I had a chuckle with my grandmother recently on how 'unbalanced' her checkbook must have been years ago.

Mary Callahan Erdoes

#32. I am not going to take a role because there's money. It might extend my checkbook, but not my integrity.

Gina Rodriguez

#33. We know this much about how Barack Obama plans to govern: He will deploy the fattest checkbook ever at the disposal of an incoming American president.

Nina Easton

#34. What grinds me the most is that we're sending kids out into the world who don't know how to balance a checkbook, don't know how to apply for a loan, don't even know how to properly fill out a job application, but because they know the quadratic formula we consider them prepared for the world?

Chris Colfer

#35. I've gone for long stretches without working. I remember many times peeking into my checkbook to see if any money was left.

Randa Haines

#36. We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.

Gloria Steinem

#37. A checkbook is a theological document, it will tell you who and what you worship.

Billy Graham

#38. I'm more to my family than a wonderful, luminous cook. I'm also a wonderful, luminous butler and a wonderful, luminous chauffer. And checkbook. I'm a luminous checkbook, too.

MaryJanice Davidson

#39. When I lost my friends, it was because I had used the power of giving on them recklessly. I swept into their lives with my big fat checkbook, and I erased years of obstacles for them overnight - but sometimes, in the process, I also accidentally erased years of dignity.

Elizabeth Gilbert