Taste is quality divided by expense.
Jul 292013
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You never find people endeavoring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune.
–Johnson
May 152013
To gauge opinion, check bond prices.
May 092013
Some men, like Balzac’s Goriot, are made of money, and when it ends so do they.
Apr 092013
For favors you pay three times over.
Feb 152013
The American upper middle class has largely given up sex and alcohol in favor of litigation and insurance fraud.
Feb 142013
It hurts less to give up the luxury than the idea that you can afford it.
Jan 242013
Wealth can be pursued cooperatively, but fame is to the death.
Jan 142013
No one is unprincipled until he is successful.
Nov 212012
It speaks well for money that people say it can’t buy everything.
Nov 012012
Get-rich-quick schemes do less harm than get-wise-quick ones.