Money is...
Posted by han2, Dec 9 2010, 10:41 PM in trivia
* Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it. (Henry Ford 1931)
* Money is like muck - not good unless spread. (Francis Bacon, Essays XV, 1625)
* Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell. (Clint Murchison Jnr)
* Money is flat and meant to be piled up. (Scottish proverb)
* Money is like a sixth sense, without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five. (Somerset Maugham)
* Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. (Woody Allen)
* Money can't buy friends, but it buys a better class of enemy. (Spike Milligan)
* Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and sucessful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis. (George Bernard Shaw)
* Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. (J. K. Galbraith)
* Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life. (Gottfried Reinhardt)
* Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not. (John Kenneth Galbraith)
* Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did. (James Baldwin)
* For the love of money is the root of all evil. (Bible: I Timothy)
* Lack of money is the root of all evil. (George Bernard Shaw)
* It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil, the want of money is so quite as truly. (Samuel Butler)
* A fool & his money are easily parted. (Irish Proverb)
* A fool and his money are soon parted. What I want to know is how they got together in the first place.(BBC's Cyril Fletcher)
* Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves. (Proverb)
* Easy come, easy go. (Proverb)
* Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. (Oliver Wendell Holms)
* Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody. (Agatha Christie)
* Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money. (Livy, History of Rome XXX, c.10)
* Without money, fame is dead. (Irish Proverb)
* The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any. (Katherine Whitehorn)
* You can be young without money but you can't be old without it. (Tennessee Williams)
* It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think that they can be happy without money. (Albert Camus)
* You don't seem to realise that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help. (Jean Kerr)
* Within certain limits it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry. (George Orwell)
* But then one is always excited by descriptions of money changing hands. It's much more fundamental than sex. (Nigel Dennis)
* Nothing links man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of cash. (Walter Richard Sickert)
* Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does. (Jane Austen)
* He that wants money, means, and content, is without three good friends. (William Shakespeare)
* For I don't care too much for money. For money can't buy me love. (John Lennon)
* I'm tired of Love: I'm still more tired of Rhyme. But money gives me pleasure all the Time. (Hilaire Belloc)
* No one would have remembered the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions. He had money as well. (Margaret Thatcher)
* Thirst after the drink and sorrow after the money. (Irish Proverb)
* A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. (Bible: Ecclesiastes)
* Clearly money has something to do with life - In fact, they've a lot in common, if you enquire: You can't put off being young until you retire. (Philip Larkin)
* Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life. (Gottfried Reinhardt)
* The trouble, Mr. Goldwyn is that you are only interested in art and I am only interested in money. (George Bernard Shaw)
* But it is pretty to see what money will do. (Samuel Pepys)
* Money doesn't talk, it swears. (Bob Dylan)
* I think money is on the way out. (Anita Loos, 1956)
* How pleasant it is to have money. (Arthur Hugh Clough)
* I can't afford to waste my time making money. (Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz)
* If possible, honestly, if not, somehow, make money. (Horace)
* There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money. (Samuel Johnson)
* Put money in thy purse. (William Shakespeare)
* Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can. (John Wesley)
* Enrich yourself. (Francois Guizot)
* My boy...always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you. (Damon Runyon)
* Some people's money is merited, and other people's is inherited. (Ogden Nash)
* He married money and got a woman with it. (Irish Proverb)
* Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your mind, and there you are. (Dorothy Parker)
* What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. (Samuel Butler)
* What's a thousand dollars? Mere chicken feed. A poultry matter. (Groucho Marx)
* Do they allow tipping on the boat? Yes, sir. Then you won't need the ten cents I was going to give you. (Groucho Marx)
* Pieces of eight! (Robert Louis Stevenson)
* I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year. (William Makepeace Thackeray)
* If you can actually count your money then you are not really a rich man. (Paul Getty II )
* After a certain point money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts. (Aristotle Onassis)
* All that good money going on a mere picture, when it might have been spent on something really useful, like a drinking fountain or a public lavatory. (Aldous Huxley)
* Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain. (A. P. Herbert)
* Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself. (Italian Proverb)
* My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man. (Glenda Jackson)
* A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it. (Bob Hope)
* It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit. (Anatole France)
* No man's credit is as good as his money. (Sinner Sermons, 1926)
* God often pays debts without money. (Irish Proverb)
* If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some. (Benjamin Franklin)
* Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with. (Artemus Ward)
* I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable. (William Shakespeare)
* We all know how the size of sums of money seems to vary in a remarkable way according as they are being paid in or paid out. (Julian Huxley)
Goes to show that...
Posted by han2, Nov 16 2010, 05:56 PM in trivia
..the more we know, the more we'd realize how little we actually know, as shown by the recent discoveries, just last year, of new human male Y-DNA haplogroups S and T, and the fact that now, geneticists lump M, (N + O), (Q + R), and S together into MNOPS, whereas previously, M, (N + O), (Q + R)(P) were classified as separate subclades of K.
The current Y-DNA Haplogroup Tree 2009
and here's the updated rough guide of their journey OOA:
on This baby keeps on tickin.