There are so many men who can figure costs, and so few who can measure values.  ~Author Unknown Tribune (San Marino, California)

Inflation is taxation without legislation.  ~Milton Friedman

Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it.  Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.  ~Richard Lamm

I am having an out of money experience.  ~Author Unknown

Another difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time the legislature meets. ~Robert Quillen, “Paragraphs,” Lincoln Star (Nebraska), 6 April 1931not Will Rogers

Punishment is now unfashionable… because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious.  We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.  ~Thomas Szasz

I’m proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money.  ~Arthur Godfrey

If the nation’s economists were laid end to end, they would point in all directions.  ~Arthur H. Motley

[O]f all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment.  ~Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull-House, ch 10, 1910

Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money.  ~Author Unknown

Who is rich?  He who rejoices in his portion.  ~The Talmud

The key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.  ~Peter Lynch

Who recalls when folks got along without something if it cost too much?  ~Kin HubbardCUL

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.  ~Bob Hope

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.  ~Gloria Steinem

There is much in the world to make us afraid.  There is much more in our faith to make us unafraid.  ~Frederick W. Cropp

It isn’t so much that hard times are coming; the change observed is mostly soft times going.  ~Groucho MarxCUL

My poverty is not complete:  it lacks me.  ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us.  We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly.  ~Benjamin Franklin

If you count all your assets, you always show a profit.  ~Robert Quillen

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.  ~Harriet Beecher StoweClV

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.  ~John Kenneth Galbraith

Is it my imagination, or does shipping and handling settle a box of crackers more than it used to?  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.  ~French ProverbDCMOO

The only man who sticks closer to you in adversity than a friend is a creditor.  ~Author Unknown

He who does not economize will have to agonize.  ~Confucius

Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.  ~Dutch Proverb

Today, there are three kinds of people:  the have’s, the have-not’s, and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-have’s.  ~Earl Wilson

The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters.  ~Jean-Paul Kauffmann

Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

We can’t quite decide if the world is growing worse, or if the reporters are just working harder.  ~The Houghton Line, November 1965

Do not value money for any more nor any less than its worth; it is a good servant but a bad master.  ~Alexandre Dumas fils, Camille, 1852WLBUQ

People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage.  ~Doug Larson

Credit buying is much like being drunk.  The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift…. The hangover comes the day after.  ~Joyce Brothers

I once met an economist who believed that everything was fungible for money, so I suggested he enclose himself in a large bell-jar with as much money as he wanted and see how long he lasted.  ~Amory Lovins

Luxury:  The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.  ~Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, 1923LCD

Unemployment is capitalism’s way of getting you to plant a garden.  ~Orson Scott Card

That money talks
I’ll not deny,
I heard it once:
It said, "Goodbye."
~Richard Armour

We all know how the size of sums of money appears to vary in a remarkable way according as they are being paid in or paid out.  ~Julian Huxley, Essays of a Biologist, 1923LOD

The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity.  But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.  ~Alan Gregg

The gap in our economy is between what we have and what we think we ought to have – and that is a moral problem, not an economic one.  ~Paul Heyne

There are plenty of ways to get ahead.  The first is so basic I’m almost embarrassed to say it:  spend less than you earn.  ~Paul Clitheroe

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

The waste of money cures itself, for soon there is no more to waste.  ~M.W. HarrisonQSO

The government?s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases:  If it moves, tax it.  If it keeps moving, regulate it.  And if it stops moving, subsidize it.  ~Ronald Reagan

I wish I’d said it first, and I don’t even know who did:  The only problems that money can solve are money problems.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966CSN

Everybody wants to eat at the government’s table, but nobody wants to do the dishes.  ~Werner Finck

People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can’t live within its income.  ~Robert Half

Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.  ~German Proverb

Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.  ~Norman Cousins

Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.  ~Sam Ewing

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.  ~Henry George, Progress and Poverty, 1879LCD

Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.  ~Victor Hugo

Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.  ~Herbert Hoover, attributedLCD

Inflation hasn’t ruined everything.  A dime can still be used as a screwdriver.  ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

If inflation continues to soar, you’re going to have to work like a dog just to live like one.  ~George GobelCUL

I’m so poor I can’t even pay attention.  ~Ron Kittle, 1987BQ

Money doesn’t talk, it swears.  ~Bob Dylan