Quotable Quotes (34 page)

—
J
OHN
W
ATTS

 

There's nothing wrong with waiting for your ship to come in, but you can be sure that if it ever does, the Receiver of Revenue will be right there to help you unload it.

—
D
AVID
B
IGGS

Cape Town Argus
(South Africa)

 

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.

—
M
ARK
T
WAIN

 

Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before.

—
A
RT
B
UCHWALD

 

The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.

—
S
AM
E
WING

 

F
INANCE IS THE ART 
. . .

 

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

—
R
OBERT
W
.
S
ARNOFF

 

Money still talks, but it has to catch its breath more often.

—
Parts Pups

 

Money talks—but credit has an echo.

—
B
OB
T
HAVES

 

A big disappointment in life is the discovery that the man who writes the finance company ads isn't the one who makes the loans.

—
The London
Free Press
(Ontario)

 

Time was when the average person could pay as he goes. Nowadays he has to pay as he comes and goes.

—
O
.
A
.
B
ATTISTA

 

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen.

—
E
ARL
W
ILSON

 

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

—
J
OHN
K
ENNETH
G
ALBRAITH

 

The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters.

—
J
EAN-
P
AUL
K
AUFFMANN

 

An economist's guess is liable to be just as good as anybody else's.

—
W
ILL
R
OGERS

 

Isn't it strange? The same people who laugh at Gypsy fortunetellers take economists seriously.

—
The Cincinnati Enquirer

 

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

—
E
ZRA
S
OLOMON

 

We have become, to some extent, economic hypochondriacs. You get a wiggle in a statistic, and everyone runs to get the thermometer.

—
P
AUL
W
.
M
C
C
RACKEN

 

Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.

—
G
REGG
E
ASTERBROOK

in
The New Republic

 

Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers.

—
N
ICHOLAS
E
BERSTADT

The Tyranny of Numbers: Mismeasurement and Misrule

 

It is not the employer who pays—he only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages.

—
H
ENRY
F
ORD

 

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

—
B
ILL
V
AUGHAN

 

To view poverty simply as an economic condition, to be measured by statistics, is simplistic, misleading and false; poverty is a state of mind, a matter of horizons.

—
P
ATRICK
J
.
B
UCHANAN

Right from the Beginning

 

When economics gets important enough, it becomes political.

—
P
ETER
G
.
P
ETERSON

 

Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped off.

—
P
AUL
B
RODEUR

Outrageous Misconduct

 

When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.

—
F
RÉDÉRIC
B
ASTIAT

 

There are so many men who can figure costs, and so few who can measure values.

—
Tribune
(San Marino, California)

 

Only a fool thinks price and value are the same.

—
A
NTONIO
M
ACHADO

 

The best cure for the national economy would be economy.

—
A
SHLEY
C
OOPER

in
News and Courier
(Charleston, South Carolina)

 

People want economy, and they will pay any price to get it.

—
L
EE
I
ACOCCA

 

The shortest recorded period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

—
J
ANE
B
RYANT
Q
UINN

 

One thing I could never abide was the leaving of money to lie idle, or even to have credit and not use it.

—
L
ORD
T
HOMSON OF
F
LEET

After I Was Sixty

 

Measure wealth not by the things you have, but by the things you have for which you would not take money.

—
A
NONYMOUS

 

Money changes people just as often as it changes hands.

—
A
L
B
ATT

 

The most efficient labor-saving device is still money.

—
F
RANKLIN
P
.
J
ONES

 

Money does make all the difference. If you have two jobs and you're rich, you have diversified interests. If you have two jobs and you're poor, you're moonlighting.

—
Changing Times

 

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

—
W
OODY
A
LLEN

 

A rand goes a long way these days. You can carry it around for days without finding a thing it will buy.

—
Daily Dispatch

(East London, South Africa)

 

I don't like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves.

—
J
OE
L
OUIS

 

Money is a good servant but a bad master.

—
F
RENCH PROVERB

 

The beauty of having a low income is that there is not enough money to buy what you don't really need.

—
R
AY
I
NMAN

 

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

—
D
ON
M
ARQUIS

 

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it; he hasn't any.

—
E
D
H
OWE

 

Bankruptcy stared me in the face, but one thought kept me calm; soon I'd be too poor to need an anti-theft alarm.

—
G
INA
R
OTHFELS

 

T
O LIVE IN SOCIETY 
. . .

 

To live in society doesn't mean simply living side by side with others in a more or less close cohesion; it means living through one another and for one another.

—
P
AUL-
E
UGENE
R
OY

 

Civilization is a process whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, and then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind.

—
The Complete Psychological Works of

Sigmund Freud

 

We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.

—
P
ABLO
C
ASALS

 

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

—
H
ENRIK
I
BSEN

 

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

—
H
AROLD
H
ELFER

 

A school system without parents at its foundation is just like a bucket with a hole in it.

—
R
EV.
J
ESSE
L
.
J
ACKSON

 

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

—
J
OHN
F
.
K
ENNEDY

 

Aristide Briand, French statesman and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize: “In order to have peace we must want it, and not always doubt it.”

—
M
ATTHIAS
J
AGGI

Schweizer Jugend

 

There's just no place you can go any longer and escape the global problems, so one's thinking must become global.

—
T
HEODORE
R
OSZAK

 

In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.

—
M
ARIANNE
W
ILLIAMSON

A Return to Love

 

A nation is a body of people who have done great things together in the past and who hope to do great things together in the future.

—
F
.
H
.
U
NDERHILL

Colombo's Little Book of Canadian Proverbs, Graffiti, Limericks and Other Vital Matters

 

I look to a time when brotherhood needs no publicity, to a time when a brotherhood award would be as ridiculous as an award for getting up each morning.

—
D
ANIEL
D
.
M
ICH

 

We should see the new world order as a building constructed brick by brick and be motivated by the fact that we have only got as far as building the ground floor.

—
D
OUGLAS
H
URD

Daily Telegraph
(London)

 

I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine.

—
K
URT
V
ONNEGUT

 

W
HOEVER DOESN'T KNOW THE PAST 
. . .

 

Whoever doesn't know the past must have little understanding of the present and no vision of the future.

—
J
OSEPH
S
.
R
AYMOND

 

History is the unfolding of miscalculation.

—
B
ARBARA
T
UCHMAN

 

History doesn't pass the dishes again.

—
L
OUIS-
F
ERDINAND
C
ÉLINE

 

History is a vast early-warning system.

—
N
ORMAN
C
OUSINS

 

History is a better guide than good intentions.

—
J
EANE
J
.
K
IRKPATRICK

 

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box.

—
I
TALIAN PROVERB

 

A nation forgetful and disrespectful of its past has no future, and deserves none.

—
Daily Telegraph
(London)

 

Righteousness is easy in retrospect.

—
A
RTHUR
S
CHLESINGER
J
R.

in
Newsweek

 

The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.

—
W
ILLA
C
ATHER

 

To understand a man, you must know his memories. The same is true of a nation.

—
A
NTHONY
Q
UAYLE

 

It was the same with those old birds in Greece and Rome as it is now. The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.

—
H
ARRY
S
.
T
RUMAN

 

I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud.