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It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.
— Thomas Aquinas
On the Working Life
Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
— Robert Half
On the Working Life
I do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistica…
— Lin Yutang
On the Working Life
Good work, like good talk or any other form of worthwhile human relationship, depends upon being able to assume an exte…
— Wendell Berry
On the Working Life
To find a person who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happines…
— Robert Brault
On the Working Life
The reward of work well done is the opportunity to do more.
— Jonas Salk
On the Working Life
There is nothing that fails like success.
— G. K. Chesterton
On the Working Life
To acquire wealth is difficult, to preserve it more difficult, but to spend it wisely most difficult of all.
— E. P. Day
On Money, Plainly
Never spend your money before you have it.
— Thomas Jefferson
On Money, Plainly
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
— Bertrand Russell
On Money, Plainly
Whoever loves money never has enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income. This too is meaningles…
— Solomon
On Money, Plainly
Buy when everyone else is selling and hold until everyone else is buying. That's not just a catchy slogan. It's the ver…
— J. Paul Getty
On Money, Plainly
He is rich who is content with the least; for content is the wealth of nature.
— Socrates
On Money, Plainly
I made my money the old-fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died.
— Malcolm Forbes
On Money, Plainly
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.
— Epicurus
On Money, Plainly
A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some.
— Joe Moore
On Money, Plainly
Try to save something while your salary is small; it's impossible to save after you begin to earn more.
— Jack Benny
On Money, Plainly
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
— H. L. Mencken
On Money, Plainly
I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes.
— Edward Gibbon
On Money, Plainly
He who loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase.
— Solomon
On Money, Plainly
There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
— Seneca
On Money, Plainly
Don't tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value.
— Joe Biden
On Money, Plainly
Get to know two things about a man — how he earns his money and how he spends it — and you have the clue to his charact…
— Robert Frost
On Money, Plainly
He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
— Lao Tzu
On Money, Plainly
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
— Jonathan Swift
On Money, Plainly
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
— Bertrand Russell
On Money, Plainly
When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everyt…
— Wayne Dyer
On Money, Plainly
To wish to be rich is to wish to be miserable.
— Saint Augustine
On Money, Plainly
Riches are not from an abundance of worldly goods, but from a contented mind.
— Prophet Muhammad
On Money, Plainly
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
— Aristotle
On Money, Plainly