Whether you wind up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends on the kind of chick you married

Whether you wind up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends on the kind of chick you married

Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed
no more than seaweed.
[Lat., Et genus et read more

Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed
no more than seaweed.
[Lat., Et genus et virtus, nisi cum re, vilior alga est.]

If your Riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to
t'other world?

If your Riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to
t'other world?

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

There's nothing so comfortable as a small bankroll. A big one is always in danger.

There's nothing so comfortable as a small bankroll. A big one is always in danger.

Base wealth preferring to eternal praise.

Base wealth preferring to eternal praise.

Private credit is wealth; public honor is security; the feather
that adorns the royal bird supports its flight; strip read more

Private credit is wealth; public honor is security; the feather
that adorns the royal bird supports its flight; strip him of his
plumage, and you fix him to the earth.

Can wealth give happiness? look round and see
What gay distress! what splendid misery!
Whatever fortunes lavishly read more

Can wealth give happiness? look round and see
What gay distress! what splendid misery!
Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour,
The mind annihilates, and calls for more.

I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man.
[Lat., Nemini credo, qui large blandus read more

I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man.
[Lat., Nemini credo, qui large blandus est dives pauperi.]