Monday, July 2, 2012

Money, Cash, Dollars, Wealth

A fine is a tax for doing wrong.  A tax is a fine for doing well.

It doesn't matter how much you have.  What matters is how much you are willing to give from what you have. (2 Cor 8:12)

It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same. (Sir Philip Gibbs)

Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it. (Henry David Thoreau)  --No, it takes a woman to know how to spend it!

Pay your debts as they come due.  However, one debt you can never finish paying is the debt of love you owe one another. (Romans 13:4)

How come when something tickles your fancy, it usually beats up your pocketbook?  (Priceless, Dave Ramsey)

Budgeting is people telling their money where to go instead of wondering where it went. (John C. Maxwell)

God loves the one who gives gladly. (2 Cor 9:7)

Debt is something you get into when you spend as much as you claim to earn. (Priceless, Dave Ramsey)

Before borrowing money from a friend, it's wise to decide if you need the money more than you need the friend.

Just about the time you think you can make both ends meet, someone moves the ends.

When your ship finally does come in, how come the IRS is on the dock unloading it?  (Priceless, Dave Ramsey)

The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender. (Prov 22:7)

Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant. (P.T. Barnum)

Most of us would be happy to pay as we go if only we could catch up to where we've been. (Priceless, Dave Ramsey)

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it. (William Feather)

Cheer up - birds have bills, but they sing anyway.

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil. (Henry Fielding)

It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits. (Charles A. Jaffe)

In the house of the wise are stores of choice food and oil, but a foolish man devours all he has. (Prov 21:20)

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. (Jonathan Swift)

No one can serve two masters.  Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other.  You cannot serve both God and Money. (Mat 6:24)

The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means. (Sir Henry Taylor)

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. (Bertrand Russell)

Even if you have a fifteen-bedroom house, you can only sleep in one room at a time.

Earn all you can; save all you can, give all you can.

Don't wait for your ship to come in if you haven't sent one out.

The wicked borrows and does not repay, but the righteous shows mercy and gives. (Psalms 37:21)

It's easy to make a buck, it's a lot tougher to make a difference. (Tom Brokaw)

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man! (Lana Turner)

In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. (Benjamin Franklin)

Very often he that his money lends
Loses both his gold and his friends.
(C. H. Spurgeon)

Still as of old, men by themselves are priced -
For thirty pieces of silver Judas sold himself, not Christ.
(Hester H. Cholmondeley)

The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket. (Will Rogers)

It's not the high cost of living, but the cost of living high.

A man who loses his money, gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better. (Benjamin Disraeli)

He is rich who owes nothing. (French Proverb)

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. (Henry Ford)

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying. (Dale Carnegie)

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people He gave it to. (Dorothy Parker)

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed. (Mohandas Gandhi)

Ere you consult your fancy, consult your purse. (Benjamin Franklin)

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. (Benjamin Franklin)

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any. (Katherine Whitehorn)

Ultimately there is only one way to financial peace, and that is to walk daily with the Prince of Peace, Christ Jesus. (Dave Ramsey)

Self-worth is more important than net worth. (Talmadge Johnson)

It is necessary to submit to the authorities.... This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God's servants, who give their full time to governing. Give everyone what you owe him: if you owe taxes, pay taxes. (Romans 13:5-7)

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. (Stephen Leacock)

Resolve not to be poor; whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. (Samuel Johnson)

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