Getting – Page 13 – Everything

Getting

You never find people endeavoring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune.
–Johnson

Jan 052015
 

Success, n.   A not entirely unbroken record of failure.

Nov 182014
 

Better a handout than a sermon, and better neither than both.

Oct 312014
 

The joy of money lies less in what one does than in what one might do.

Oct 292014
 

Some who earn thousands of times your income don’t deserve it, which is bad; and some do, which is worse.

Sep 252014
 

To reduce the value of anything one need only try to sell it.

Jul 302014
 

Commercial success frees you to pursue further commercial success.

Jul 292014
 

It is best that something as permanent as envy be directed at something as transient as money.

Jul 022014
 

A man will reveal the most intimate details of his sex life before he will show you his tax return.