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Money Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
- We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of…
- People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a picture. Write.
- Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard evidence could never…
- Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired of knowledge. Our…
- Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and…
- Wake up, you idiots! Whatever made you think that money was so valuable?
- Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds.…
- A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be a leading character…
- Any form of government, not just Capitalism, is whatever people who have all our money, drunk or sober, sane or insane, decide to do today.
- Do I resent rich people? No. The best or worst I can do is notice them. I agree with the great Socialist writer George Orwell,…
- Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue, the monograph went on. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very…
- Why throw money at problems? That is what money is for. Should the nation's wealth be redistributed? It has been and continues to be redistributed…
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- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'. — Richard Armour
- I don't use a debit card. The safest thing is a credit card because you're using the bank's money. If someone accesses… — Frank Abagnale
- The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people… — Chester A. Arthur
- There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise. — Mary Kay Ash
- Get that right, then- if you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your… — Rowan Atkinson
- Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. — Jane Austen
- Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does. — Jane Austen