What are your favorite quotes?

I have nothing but contempt for the people who despise money. They are hypocrites or fools.
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make complete use of the other five.
Without an adequate income half the possibilities of life are shut off.
The only thing to be careful about is that you do not pay more that a shilling for the shilling you earn.
You will hear people say that poverty is the best spur to the artist. They have never felt the iron of it in their flesh.
They do not know how men it makes you. It exposes you to endless humiliation, it cuts your wings, it eats into your soul like a cancer.

W Somerset Maugham - Of Human Bondage.
 
Then Jesus said unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven. And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

~~Matthew 19:23-24, King James version
 
"Goddamn all big shots.

"We have won [World War II] because our men are brave, and because of many other things...We did not win it because destiny created us better than all other peoples. I hope that in victory we are more grateful than we are proud…The dead men would not want us to gloat."

~~Ernie Pyle, World War II journalist
 
Bretrick said:
I have nothing but contempt for the people who despise money. They are hypocrites or fools.
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make complete use of the other five.
Without an adequate income half the possibilities of life are shut off.
The only thing to be careful about is that you do not pay more that a shilling for the shilling you earn.
You will hear people say that poverty is the best spur to the artist. They have never felt the iron of it in their flesh.
They do not know how men it makes you. It exposes you to endless humiliation, it cuts your wings, it eats into your soul like a cancer.

W Somerset Maugham - Of Human Bondage.
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That's one of my favorite books, @Bretrick ! Do you happen to have page numbers?
 
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