Quotable quotes: authors’ view of money
April 27, 2008 by Miki Saxon
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Ah, money. Once you have it what to do with it. So many ideas, so little time. What are your famous favorites?
“Sex is like money; only too much is enough.” –John Updike, Piet Hanema, in Couples, ch. 5, 1968 (Too bad that too much of the former is no guarantee of enough of the latter.)
“Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.” –Rita Mae Brown (Considering people’s penchant for breaking stupid laws it might even work.)
“Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.” –Dorothy Parker, In Writers at Work, 1956 (Me too:)
Your comments—priceless
“No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.”
Samuel Johnson
Interesting, Sean. I wonder what Johnson would have to say about today’s web content.