You cannot take a cow from a man who has none.
—Danish proverb
2
***
Poverty is not a vice, but it is a great inconvenience.
—European proverb
3
To be poor and independent is nearly an impossibility.
—William Cobbett, 1829
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
—Willem de Kooning
4
Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The
poor know this is money.
—Gerald Brenan, 1978
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
—Woody Allen, 1976
I’ve been poor and I’ve been rich. Rich is better!
—Beatrice Kaufman, 1937
5
[The two most beautiful English words] are ‘check’ and ‘enclosed’.
—Dorothy Parker, 1932
The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
—Edith Wharton, 1905
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
—Logan Pearsall Smith, 1931
Who has, is.
Who has not, is not.
Who has something, is something.
—Italian proverbs
Money couldn’t buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.
—Spike Milligan, 1963
***
You want as much again as you have already got.
—Horace, *21 BC
2
There are proverbs with the same idea in many other languages.
3
Could originate from a John Florio’s line in his Second Fruits (circa 1591).
4
As quoted, without a date, in several collections, already during author’s lifetime.
5
Often misattributed (among many others) to Sophie Tucker.
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—Danish proverb
2
***
Poverty is not a vice, but it is a great inconvenience.
—European proverb
3
To be poor and independent is nearly an impossibility.
—William Cobbett, 1829
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
—Willem de Kooning
4
Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The
poor know this is money.
—Gerald Brenan, 1978
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
—Woody Allen, 1976
I’ve been poor and I’ve been rich. Rich is better!
—Beatrice Kaufman, 1937
5
[The two most beautiful English words] are ‘check’ and ‘enclosed’.
—Dorothy Parker, 1932
The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
—Edith Wharton, 1905
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
—Logan Pearsall Smith, 1931
Who has, is.
Who has not, is not.
Who has something, is something.
—Italian proverbs
Money couldn’t buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.
—Spike Milligan, 1963
***
You want as much again as you have already got.
—Horace, *21 BC
2
There are proverbs with the same idea in many other languages.
3
Could originate from a John Florio’s line in his Second Fruits (circa 1591).
4
As quoted, without a date, in several collections, already during author’s lifetime.
5
Often misattributed (among many others) to Sophie Tucker.
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