Top 60 Quotes About A Fool And His Money
#2. There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
Adlai E. Stevenson
#3. Two-up is Australia's very own way of parting a fool and his money.
Germaine Greer
#6. A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.
Stanley Weiser
#7. A fool and his money are soon parted. It takes creative tax laws for the rest.
Bob Thaves
#8. A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.
Thomas Tusser
#9. How did a fool and his money get together in the first place?
Steven Wright
#12. A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.
Al Bernstein
#15. But any fool knows that you don't need money to get enjoyment out of life.
Thomas Merton
#16. The fool has set in his heart that he can get more money through the tiring of his muscle and the starvation of his brain-but he can't.
William D. Hoard
#17. The Yorubas have a saying, here, my translation in English
a poor fool is a bigger fool rich. In other words, money only allows and enables you to be more of who you are. My bigger translation? You don't jump essence, you jump environs!
Dew Platt
#18. Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket" - which is but a matter of saying, "Scatter your money and your attention"; but the wise man saith, "Pull all your eggs in the one basket and - WATCH THAT BASKET." - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
Mark Twain
#19. The diet book is one of those fool-and-money separation devices that seems, like roulette or slot machines, never to lose its power.
Christopher Hitchens
#20. If you can't make 40% on your money in Russia, you're a fool.
Simon Reuben
#21. You'd be a fool or a deluded idealist to think ethics would be prominent on Wall Street. That is not a statement against people in the money business, just a fact.
Steven Levitt
#23. She doesn't need your money. Even a penniless fool like you can make her fall in love with you. That's just miracle.
Vann Chow
#24. New Golden Rule of Fractional Reserve Banking: He who creates the "fool's gold" controls the fools.
Orrin Woodward
#25. If you wish to get rich, save what you get. A fool can earn money; but it takes a wise man to save and dispose of it to his own advantage.
Brigham Young
#26. The demon got up. The demon said Fool. To think you can eat their food and not talk to them. To think you can take their money and not be afraid of them. To think you can depend on their company and not suffer from them.
Joanna Russ
#27. If I was a private individual, I'd be more careful; but being as I'm a government, I'm privileged to make a God-damned fool of myself in any way I choose, especially by spending a lot more money than I've got or ever will have, and promising to do things that I ain't got a chance of doing.
Kenneth Roberts
#28. Her mother was my wife," the Count roared, loudest of all. "You pathetic excuse for am money-grubbing fool, you disgrace to the face of the world." And with a shriek of disgust he turned and was gone.
Guilietta was beside Inigo then, so excited. "Daddy likes you," she said.
William Goldman
#29. Any fool can spend money. But to earn it and save it and defer gratification - then you learn to value it differently.
Malcolm Gladwell
#30. The problem with fiat money is that it rewards the minority that can handle money, but fools the generation that has worked and saved money.
Adam Smith
#31. The fool says, "These are my sons, this is my land, this is my money." In reality, the fool does not own himself, much less sons, land, or money.
Gautama Buddha
#32. The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#33. You fool! You're 30 cents away from having a quarter!
Robin Harris
#34. Creon: See that you never side with those who break my orders.
Leader: Never. Only a fool could be in love with death.
Creon: Death is the price - you're right. But all too often the mere hope of money has ruined many men.
Sophocles
#35. I'd be a fool to be in this for the money.
Benny Hinn
#36. You do know it cost money to put a t-shirt on your back? You do know it cost money have a house? You do know it cost money to eat? Get money, don't let these people fool you.
DJ Khaled
#37. Seven habits that help produce the anything-but-efficient markets that rule the world.
1. Think short term.
2. Be greedy.
3. Believe in the greater fool
4. Run with the herd.
5. Overgeneralize
6. Be trendy
7. Play with other people's money
Paul Krugman
#38. [S]ome men who cheat their wives out of grocery money wouldn't think of cheating the grocer. Men tend to carry their honesty in pigeonholes, Jean Louise. They can be perfectly honest in some ways and fool themselves in other ways.
Harper Lee
#39. A man who makes a one-dollar profit on his expense account is dishonest. A man who loses five cents on one is a damned fool.
Gene Fowler
#40. I was no fool; I was aware that when another man is too anxious to force money on one, it is time to examine the cards, for there is almost certainly something illegal, or dangerous, or both, involved in the matter.
Robert A. Heinlein
#41. People say child stars have a hard time 'because of the entertainment business,' but I think there's a dysfunction before all that. I use the analogy, 'If you're a fool without money, you'll be a fool with money.'
Tia Mowry
#42. Any fool can make enough money to survive. It's another thing to keep yourself consistently entertained. It's a lot of work, and a lot of fun, to make a life.
Robert Fulghum
#43. The difference between the rich and the poor, is finding true love.
Anthony Liccione
#44. It's amazing how man still believes in words. For example, if you call him a fool and don't beat him, he'll be wretched. Call him a genius and don't give him any money - he'll be quite satisfied.
Ivan Turgenev
#45. All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.
Rudyard Kipling
#46. I think any writer is a fool if he doesn't do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive in addition to the project. It all goes together. It's fun to sit there and think of characters and get them into action, then be paid for it.
Elmore Leonard
#47. Remember what I used to tel you when you were a little girl? 'A fool and her money soon part.' Current-day translation? Stop pissing away your assets at Bloomingdale's.
Sophie Kinsella
#48. There isn't any question that Hollywood is profit driven. Anybody that thinks it isn't is a fool. It's a business. Hollywood was never philanthropy. The only purpose it had was making money; the only purpose it still has is to make money.
Sydney Pollack
#49. There is a certain elegance in wasting time. Any fool can waste money, but when you waste time you waste what is priceless.
W. Somerset Maugham
#50. Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.
Bernard Baruch
#51. A man who loves money is a bastard, someone to be hated. A man who can't take care of it is a fool. You don't hate him, but you got to pity him.
Stephen King
#52. Anyone who pretends not to be interested in money is either a fool or a knave.
Patricia Wentworth
#53. Maybe books are best, because you don't have to have money to read... A man can travel all over the world and come back the same kind of fool he was when he started. You can't do that with books.
James A. Michener
#54. Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense.
Earl Wilson
#55. Look, don't congratulate us when we buy a company, congratulate us when we sell it. Because any fool can overpay and buy a company, as long as money will last to buy it.
Henry Kravis
#56. So the actual privilege is that you can then take time off - and if you don't, you're a fool. You're earning all this money to support children whom you then don't see, which is absurd.
Paul Bettany
#57. Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.
Elbert Hubbard
#58. Money will not buy intelligence for the fool, or admiration for the coward, or respect for the incompetent.
Ayn Rand
#59. It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.
Charles Caleb Colton
#60. Get money - but stop once in a while to figure what it is costing you to get it. No man gets it without giving something in return. The wise man gives his labor and ability. The fool gives his life.
Bruce Barton
