Spending Money Quotes - Page 4

• The art business is a rarified business and appeals to an audience capable of spending money on a luxury. Too often the atmosphere in a gallery borders on snobbishness.

  Scott Kahn

  Art, Luxury, Atmosphere

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• there is no pleasure so sweet as the pleasure of spending money but the pleasure of writing is longer. There is no denying that.

  Gertrude Stein

  Sweet, Money, Writing

  Gertrude Stein (1974). “How Writing Is Written”

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• If we aren't careful, our children will come down with 'affluenza,' a disease that causes them to confuse wants and needs. We need to teach our children what my grandmother taught me: Think twice about spending money you don't have on things you don't need to impress people you don't like anyway.

  Michelle Singletary

  Money, Children, Grandmother

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• Slasher Hathaway marks his territory by spending money. He might as well have pissed on her. It means nothing.

  Marian Keyes

  Mean, Might, Territory

  Marian Keyes (2009). “The Brightest Star in the Sky”, p.91, Penguin UK

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• I went to the circus, and loafed around the back side till the watchman went by, and then dived in under the tent. I had my twenty-dollar gold piece and some other money, but I reckoned I better save it.... I ain't opposed to spending money on circuses, when there ain't no other way, but there ain't no use in wasting it on them.

  Mark Twain

  Money, Gold, Twenties

  Mark Twain (2008). “10 Books in 1”, p.117, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• During last night's Republican debate, Mike Huckabee got a big laugh when he said that Congress has been spending money like John Edwards at a beauty salon. Then Huckabee got an even bigger laugh when he said he's running for president

  Conan O'Brien

  Running, Night, Laughing

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• The problem with our deficit is not because Americans are taxed too little. The problem with the deficit is because Washington spends too much money. We have got to stop spending money we don't have.

  Paul Ryan

  Littles, Too Much, Problem

  'Monday show' with Lawrence O'Donnell, www.today.com. April 5, 2011.

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• The almost erotic pleasure of spending money that others have earned and saved is one reason people put up with the tiresome aspects of political life.

  George Will

  People, Political, Erotic

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• Instead of spending money, I earned it.

  P. T. Barnum

  Spending

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• T-shirts create a sense of "We". Food says, "We don't mind spending money on you."

  Andy Stanley

  Leadership, Christian, Mind

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• We do not have a revenue problem in D.C. or this county. We have a prioritization problem. When you create the priorities you fund the priorities of the country and you stop spending money when you get to zero.

  Tim Scott

  Country, Zero, Priorities

  "Interview with Congressman-Elect Tim Scott". Interview with John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. November 5, 2010.

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