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. . . [QUOTES FOLLOW LINKS] see: AVARICE BANKERS, BANKS BEGGARS BORROWING BUBBLES (ECONOMIC) CAPITALISM CHEAP CREDIT (FINANCE) DEBT ECONOMICS FRUGAL GAMBLING GREED INVESTMENTS LENDING LUXURY PHILANTHROPY POOR POVERTY PROSPERITY RICH (THE), RICH AND POOR SECURITY SOCIAL SECURITY SPENDTHRIFTS STOCK MARKET TAXATION THRIFT TIPPING VALUE WAGES WEALTH WILLS - The rich man has his motorcar, His country and his town estate. He smokes a fifty-cent cigar, And jeers at Fate. Yet though my lamp burn low and dim, Though I must slave for livelihood-- Think you that I would change with him? You bet I would! --Franklin Pierce Adams (18811960) American columnist and member of the Algonquin Round Table. _The Rich Man_, Stanzas 1 and 3 - It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow. --Ζsop (c.620 B.C.c.560 B.C.) (Thought to be a legendary figure.) _Ζsop's Fables_ "The Dog in the Manger" Money can't buy everything. For example: poverty. --Nelson Algren (19091981) American novelist. _A Walk on the Wild Side_, ch. 3 [1956] A stockbroker is someone who invests other people's money until it's all gone. --attributed to Woody Allen [Allen Stewart Konigsberg] (1935 ) American actor, screenwriter, and director. ^^ Peter Altenberg (18621919) Austrian poet Despite reasonably sound finances, Altenberg possessed a curious mania for begging. The poet and critic Karl Kraus was often accosted by Altenberg for money, and Kraus invariably refused to comply. Finally, his patience at an end, Kraus exclaimed, "Look, Peter, I'd gladly give it to you, but I really don't have the money." "Very well," Altenberg mused. "I'll lend it to you." --http://anecdotage.com ^^ They only ask for a fair day's wages for a fair day's work. --Thomas Attwood Speech in the House of Commons [14 June 1839]. Money cannot buy The fuel of love but is excellent kindling. --W.H. [Wystan Hugh] Auden (19071973) English-born poet and man of letters. If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him. --Francis Bacon (15611626) English philosopher and essayist. Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did. --James Baldwin (19241987) American author and playwright. In "Esquire" [May 1961] "Black Boy looks at the White Boy." I'm tired of Love: I'm still more tired of Rhyme. But Money gives me pleasure all the time. --Hilaire Belloc (18701953) British poet, essayist, historian, and novelist. "Fatigue" [1923] HOLDUP MAN: Your money or your life? Come on, hurry up! BENNY: I'm thinking it over. --Jack Benny [Benjamin Kubelsky] (18941974) American entertainer. (His signature joke.) - The love of money is the root of all evil. --Bible "Timothy" 6:10 The borrower is servant to the lender. --Bible "Proverbs" 22:7 - - The Ten Cannots You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot establish security on borrowed money. You cannot build character and courage by taking away men's initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves. --Rev. William John Henry Boetcker (18731962) German-born American minister and author. - "O death, where is thy jolly old sting?" As Bertie Wooster said when his Aunt Agatha died leaving him a cool fifty thousand. --Gerald Brenan (18941987) British travel writer and novelist. "Death," _Thoughts in a Dry Season: A Miscellany_ [1978] Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money. --Gerald Brenan (18941987) British travel writer and novelist. - If you can't take money from people and then screw them, you have no business being a politician. --Willie L. Brown, Jr. (1934 ) American politician. On "Politically Incorrect" [American television show] Well, baby, what I couldn't do With plenty of money and you. In spite of the worry that money brings. Just a little filthy lucre buys a lot of things. And I could take you to places that you would like to go. But outside of that, I've no use for dough. It's the root of all evil, Of strife and upheaval. But I'm certain, honey, that life would be sunny With plenty of money and you. --Henry Busse (18941955) German-borm lyricist and bandleader. "With Plenty Of Money And You" - It costs a lot of money to die comfortably. --Samuel Butler (18351902) English novelist, essayist, and critic. A man can stand being told that he must submit to a severe surgical operation, or that he has some disease which will shortly kill him, or that he will be a cripple or blind for the rest of his life; dreadful as such tidings must be, we do not find that they unnerve the greater number of mankind; most men, indeed, go coolly enough even to be hanged, but the strongest quail before financial ruin, and the better men they are, the more complete, as a general rule, is their prostration. Suicide is a common consequence of money losses; it is rarely sought as a means of escape from bodily suffering. If we feel that we have a competence at our backs, so that we can die warm and quietly in our beds, with no need to worry about expense, we live our lives out to the dregs, no matter how excruciating our torments. Job probably felt the loss of his flocks and herds more than that of his wife and family, for he could enjoy his flocks and herds without his family, but not his family- not for long- if he had lost all his money. Loss of money indeed is not only the worst pain in itself, but it is the parent of all others. Let a man have been brought up to a moderate competence, and have no specialty; then let his money be suddenly taken from him, and how long is his health likely to survive the change in all his little ways which loss of money will entail? How long again is the esteem and sympathy of friends likely to survive ruin? People may be very sorry for us, but their attitude towards us hitherto has been based upon the supposition that we were situated thus or thus in money matters; when this breaks down there must be a restatement of the social problem so far as we are concerned; we have been obtaining esteem under false pretences. Granted, then, that the three most serious losses which a man can suffer are those affecting money, health, and reputation. Loss of money is far the worst, then comes ill-health, and then loss of reputation; loss of reputation is a bad third, for, if a man keeps health and money unimpaired, it will be generally found that his loss of reputation is due to breaches of parvenu conventions only, and not to violations of those older, better established canons whose authority is unquestionable. In this case a man may grow a new reputation as easily as a lobster grows a new claw, or, if he have health and money, may thrive in great peace of mind without any reputation at all. --Samuel Butler (18351902) English novelist, essayist, and critic. _The Way of All Flesh_ [1903] - He who is frugal is the richest of men, and the miser is the poorest. --Sιbastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort (17411794) French playwright and conversationalist. _Maxims and Thoughts_ [1796], tr. W.S. Merwin [1984] - There is no fortress so strong that money cannot take it. --Marcus Tullius Cicero (10643 BC) Roman orator and statesman. What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive. For can there be anything more absurd than to seek more journey money, the less there remains of the journey? --Marcus Tullius Cicero (10643 BC) Roman orator and statesman. "On Old Age," tr. Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh (18431906) in _The Harvard Classics_ [19091914] Edited by Charles William Eliot (18341926), vol. IX, pt. 2. - They may talk all they please about what they call pelf, And how one ought never to think of oneself, How pleasures of thought surpass eating and drinking, -- My pleasure of thought is the pleasure of thinking How pleasant it is to have money, heigh-ho! How pleasant it is to have money. --Arthur Hugh Clough (18191861) English poet. - I believe that it is only the abundance of money in a state which makes a difference to its greatness and its power. It is certain that by means of manufactures, a million people who languish in idleness will gain their livelihood. --Jean-Baptiste Colbert (16191683) Controller general of finance and secretary of state for the navy under Louis XIV of France. _Memoir on Commerce, A Document Presented to the King_ [3 August 1664] I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. --E.E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (18941962) American poet. Money, it is often said, does not bring happiness; it must be added, however, that it makes it possible to support unhappiness with exemplary fortitude. --Robertson Davies (19131995) Canadian author and playwright. Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil. As he grew up it was his duty as a Christian and a gentleman to appear to despise filthy lucre, whatever his secret opinion of it might be. --Rebecca Harding Davis (18311910) American author, journalist, and critic. _Bits of Gossip_, ch. 1, [1904] Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds, ought and six, result misery. --Charles Dickens (18121870) English novelist. Mr. Micawber, _David Copperfield_ [1850] - "He made money," said Mr. Dooley, "because he honestly loved it with an innocint affiction. He was thrue to it. Th' reason ye have no money is because ye don't love it f'r itsilf alone. Money won't iver surrinder to such a flirt." --Finley Peter Dunne (18671936) American journalist and humorist. _Mr. Dooley on Making a Will and Other Evil Necessities_ [1919] If a man is wise he gets rich, an' if he gets rich, he gets foolish, or his wife does. That's what keeps the money movin' around. --Finley Peter Dunne (18671936) American journalist and humorist. _Observations by Mr. Dooley_ [1902] - - Can anybody remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce? --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. "Works and Days" _Society and Solitude_ [1870] Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. _English Traits_ [1856] "Religion" - A fool and his money are soon parted. --English proverb - Lend Money to an Enemy, and thou'lt gain him, to a Friend, and thou'lt lose him. --Benjamin Franklin (17061790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. _Poor Richard's Almanack_ [1740] If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some. --Benjamin Franklin (17061790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. _Poor Richard's Almanack_ [1758] [The] great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their *giving too much for their whistles.* --Benjamin Franklin (17061790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. {Referring to the time when at age 7 he was charmed by another boy's whistle which he bought with all the money he had, letter to Madame Brillion [10 November 1779]. - Q - A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. --Robert Frost (18741963) American poet. - It is said that for money you can have everything, but you cannot. You can buy food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; knowledge but not wisdom; glitter, but not beauty; fun, but not joy; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; leisure, but not peace. You can have the husk of everything for money, but not the kernel. --Arne Garborg (18511924) Norwegian novelist, poet, and playwright. & see: Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace or happiness. --Henrik Ibsen (18281906) Norwegian playwright. - People who don't respect money don't have any. --J. Paul Getty (18921976) American industrialist and founder of Getty Oil. To have money is to be virtuous, honest, beautiful and witty. And to be without is to be ugly and boring and stupid and useless. --Jean Giraudoux (18821944) French dramatist. _The Madwoman of Chailot_ [1945] The darkest day in a man's career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a dollar than by squarely earning it. --Horace Greeley (18111872) American newspaper editor. These who give not till they die show that they would not then if they could keep it any longer. --Joseph Hall (15741656) English bishop, moral philosopher, and satirist. - I remember one night I was walking past Mom and Dad's room when I heard them talking about how they might not have enough money to pay their bills that month. I knew what I had to do. I went and got my piggy bank and buried it in the backyard, where they couldn't get their mitts on it. --Jack Handey (1949 ) American comedian and comedy writer. _Fuzzy Memories_ [1996] - - [a bank executive talks to his subordinates in a staff meeting] Levy transition fees. And maintenance fees. And fees for opening an account, closing an account, having less than three accounts, and having more than two accounts. I want to see late charges, early charges, and surcharges on other charges. I want a fee for foreign accounts, a fee for domestic accounts, and a fee for accounts subject to audits. You get the picture? Institute a contact fee, a telephone charge, a bookkeeping adjustment charge, a sinking fee, a flotation fee, and you, Nichols, go to the New York Public Library and-- I don't care how long it takes-- find five fees that no one has ever heard of. Look especially hard into Babylonia, the Sumerians, Byzantium, and the Holy Roman Empire. Those guys knew what they were doing, and they had balls. --Mark Helprin (1947 ) American novelist and journalist. _Memoir from Ant-Proof Case_ - At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late. --Hesiod (c. 700 B.C.) Greek poet. The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were contemptuous of money. The passage from the nineteenth to the twentieth century has been a passage from considerations of money to considerations of power. How naive the cliche that money is the root of evil! --Eric Hoffer (19021983) American longshoreman, philosopher, and author who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1982. Money, you've gots of friends, Crowding round your door. Money's gone and spending ends They don't come no more. --Billie Holliday [Eleanora Fagan] (19151959) American jazz singer. "God Bless The Child" (song, lyrics by Billie Holiday, music by Arthur Herzog.) I care not much for gold or land; Give me a mortgage here and there, Some good bank-stock, some note of hand, Or trifling railroad share, I only ask that Fortune send A *little* more than I shall spend. --Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (18091894) American physician, poet, and essayist. "Contentment" in _The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table_ [1858] - The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money I applaud myself. --Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (658 BC) Roman poet. _Epistles_, i, c. 25 B.C. Make money, fairly make it, if you may, But, if not fairly, then in any way. {expressing with disapproval a popular view} --Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (658 BC) Roman poet. _Epistles_ 1.1 In _The Complete Works of Horace_ (ed.) Casper J. Kraemer Jr. [1936]. - - When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, 'Give pounds and crowns and guineas, But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty, No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, 'The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty, And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true. --A.E. [Alfred Edward] Houseman (18591936) English classical scholar and poet. - When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't any. --Edgar Watson Howe (18541937) American journalist and author. _Sinner Sermons_ [1926 ed] When a fellow says it hain't the money but the principle o' the thing, it's th' money. --Frank McKinney (Kin) Hubbard (18681930) American humorist. _Abe Martin: Hoss Sense and Nonsense_ [1926] The trick is to stop thinking of it as "your" money. --IRS auditor - ...nice crisp clean checks, pert pieces of copper coinage thrust deep into trouser pockets, romantic foreign money rolling against the thigh with rough familiarity, beautiful wayward curlicued banknotes, filigreed copper plating cheek by jowl with tumbly rubbing gently against the terse leather of beautifully balanced bank books!! I'm sorry. But I love money. All money. I've always wanted money. To handle! To touch! The smell of the rain-washed florin! The lure of the lira! The glitter and the glory of the guinea! The romance of the ruble! The feel of the franc! The heel of the deutschmark! The cold antiseptic sting of the Swiss franc! And the sunburnt splendor of the Australian dollar! --Eric Idle (1943 ) English comedian, actor, and member of Monty Python. - The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land. --Washington Irving (17831859) American writer. _Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies_ [1855] "The Creole Village" Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses. --Jerome K Jerome (18591927) English novelist and playwright. _Three Men in Boat_, ch. 3 [1889] Children are rarely in the position to lend one a truly interesting sum of money. There are, however, exceptions, and such children are an excellent addition to any party. --Fran Lebowitz (1946 ) American humorist. _Metropolitan Life_ [1978] Money can't buy love, but it can definitely rent by the hour. --Kathy Lette (1958 ) Australian author. ^ Oscar Levant (1906-1972) American pianist, writer, and wit. As a houseguest in the Kaufman household, Levant rather overstayed his welcome. At the end of one of his prolonged visits, Mrs. Kaufman hinted, 'The servants always expect a little something, and I know you haven't any money, so I tipped them each three dollars and told them it was from you.' Levant was outraged. 'You should have given them five!' he exclaimed. 'Now they'll think I'm stingy.' --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.] ^ ^ Detlev von Liliencron (18441909) German lyric poet and novelist. Liliencron was often in dire financial straits. One of his creditors stopped him in the street and demanded payment. 'Sorry, but I have no money, said Liliencron. 'Please be patient.' 'But that's what you said four weeks ago.' 'Well,' said Liliencron triumphantly, haven't I kept my word?' --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.] ^ Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves. --William Lowndes (16521724) English politician. In Lord Chesterfield _Letters to his Son_ [1774] "5 February 1750" A son could bear complacently the death of his father while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair. --Niccolς Machiavelli (14691527) Florentine statesman and political philosopher. There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them. --Mignon McLaughlin (19131983) American journalist and author. _The Second Neurotics Notebook_ [1966] Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy. --Spike [Terence Alan] Milligan (19182002) Novelist, poet, and comedian. "Puckoon" [1963] I want the whole of Europe to have one currency; it will make trading much easier. --Napoleon I (17691821) Emperor of France [18041815]. Letter to his brother Louis [6 May 1807]. - Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny-- Did you ever try buying them without money? --Ogden Nash (19021971) American writer of humorous poetry. "The Terrible People" _Happy Days_ [1933] He without benefit of scruples His fun and money soon quadruples. --Ogden Nash (19021971) American writer of humorous poetry. - If a man runs after money, he's money-mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a ne'er-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it, he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a lifetime of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of his life. --Vic Oliver (18981964) Austrian-born English comedian, actor, and musician. I'd like to have money. And I'd like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that's too adorable, I'd rather have money. --Dorothy Parker (18931967) American critic and humorist. You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap. --Dolly Parton (1946 ) American country music singer. I want to live like a poor man with lots of money. --Pablo Picasso (18811973) Spanish painter and sculptor. When I had money, everybody called me brother. --Polish proverb The things which belong to others please us more, and that which is ours, is more pleasing to others. --Publilius Syrus (8543 B.C.) Latin writer of mimes who was originally a slave. It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price. --Samuel Richardson (16891761) English novelist. I believe the power to make money is a gift of God...to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind. Having been endowed with the gift I possess, I believe it is my duty to make money and still more money, and to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience. --John D(avison) Rockefeller Sr. (18391937) American capitalist and philanthropist. In Matthew Josephson, _The Robber Barons_. 'My boy,' he says, 'always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.' --Damon Runyon (18841946) American journalist and short-story writer. In "Cosmopolitan" [August 1929] "A Very Honorable Guy" No, little rich boy, there is no third principle; there is only money-and-poverty, and have and lack, and right-and-left; there is only me-against the world! The world is not ideas, rich boy; the world is no place for dreamers or their dreams; the world, little Snotnose, is things. Things and their makers rule the world. For things, the country is run. Not for people. When you have things, there is time to dream; when you dont, you fight. --Sir Salman Rushdie (1947 ) Indian-born British novelist. _Midnights Children_ Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. --Scottish Proverb He that visits the sick, in hopes of a legacy, let him be never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him in this to be no better than a raven, that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes. --Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C. 65 A.D.) Roman philosopher and poet. An itching palm. --William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist. _Julius Caesar_ [1599], IV, 3, 10 The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilisation. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honour, generosity and beauty....Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people. --George Bernard Shaw (18561950) Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, Socialist propagandist, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925. _Major Barbara_ [1905] All money is a matter of belief. --Adam Smith (17231790) Scottish economist. I'm for gold dollars as against balony dollars. --Alfred E. Smith (18731944) American politician; four-time Democratic governor of New York and the first Roman Catholic to run for President of the U.S.. In an interview in New York City [24 November 1933]. Nature has no cure for this sort of madness [Bolshevism], though I have known a legacy from a rich relative work wonders. --F. E. Smith (18721930) British Conservative politician and lawyer. There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail. --Logan Pearsall Smith (18651946) American-born man of letters. _Afterthoughts_ [1931] "Life and Human Nature" To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness-- these are the gifts which money cannot buy. --Robert Louis Stevenson (18501894) Scottish essayist, poet, and novelist. It is a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night. --Willie Sutton (19011980) American criminal. He who loves money will not be satisfied with money. --Talmud True, money can't buy happiness, but it isn't happiness I want. It's money. --Hunter S. Thompson (19372005) American journalist and author. A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. --Lana Turner [Julia Jean Mildred Frances Turner] (19201995) American actress. - His money is twice tainted: 'taint yours and 'taint mine. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. Get money. Get it quickly. Get it in abundance. Get it in prodigious abundance. Get it dishonestly if you can, honestly if you must. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. In Bernard A. Weisberger "The Wrongdoers" _American Heritage_ [December 1989] - One of the sages of Persia said, "He who claims that he does not love money is a liar in my view, until he proves the truth of what he says. And if he does prove the truth of what he says, then he is a fool in my eyes." --al-Watwat, 1314thC A.D. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. --Oscar Wilde (18541900) Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet. Always remember, money isn't everything -- but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense. --Earl Wilson (19071987) American newspaper columnist. I'm sick of praise. I want money. --Thomas Wolfe (19001938) American novelist. Letter to his mother. With money in your pocket, you are wise and you are handsome and you sing well too. --in Yiddish Proverbs, ed. Hanan J. Ayalti [1949]. When a man with experience meets a man with money, the man with money gets the experience, and the man with experience gets the money. --anon. -- When Barbara and Jim were dating, Barbara became concerned over the lavish amount of money Jim was spending on her. After an expensive dinner date, she asked her mother, What can I do to stop Jim from spending so much money on me? Her mother replied simply, Marry him. ----- bursar/purser (noun) ['bκr-sr/pκr-sr] The treasurer of a college or university is often called a "bursar" while the person with the same job on a vessel (air or sea) is a purser. Everywhere else the function is that of a treasurer. cupidity (noun) [kyu-'pi-dκ-tee or -ti] Excessive avarice or strong greed for something, especially for wealth. The adjective is cupidinous. dollar (noun) ['dah-lκ(r) ] The basic monetary unit of Australia, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Brunei, Canada, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Fiji, Grenada, Guyana, Hong Kong, Jamaica, Kiribai, Liberia, Nauru, New Zealand, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Singapore, the Solomon Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, the United States, and Zimbabwe. [2004] emolument ih-MOL-yuh-muhnt, noun: The wages or perquisites arising from office, employment, or labor; gain; compensation. Synonyms: profit, remuneration, salary, stipend. exiguous ig-ZIG-yoo-us, adjective: Extremely scanty; meager. Ex.: Among the pressures provoking these distresses were a father's financial inadequacy and a growing awareness that, by finding employment himself, he could ameliorate the family's exiguous circumstances. --Terence Brown, _The Life of W. B. Yeats: A Critical Biography_ lucre LOO-kuhr, noun: Monetary gain; profit; riches; money; -- often in a bad sense. parsimonious (adj.) Frugal: very frugal or ungenerous pecuniary pih-KYOO-nee-air-ee, adjective: 1. Relating to money; monetary. 2. Consisting of money. 3. Requiring payment of money. Ex.: The young man of the house was absorbed in his vegetable garden and the possibilities for pecuniary profit that it held. --Samuel Chamberlain _Clementine in the Kitchen_ pelf PELF, noun: Money; riches; gain; -- generally conveying the idea of something ill-gotten. Ex.: "As so often happens, pelf is talking louder than principle at the Colorado legislature." --"Legislature Goes Belly Up," _Denver Rocky Mountain News_ [27 April 1997] spendthrift (noun) ['spend-thrift] A person who spends money wastefully. tontine (noun) Group investment scheme: an investment or insurance plan in which contributors pay equal amounts into a common fund and receive equal dividends and benefits from it, with the final surviving contributor receiving everything. wastrel WAY-struhl, noun: 1. A person who wastes, especially one who squanders money; a spendthrift. 2. An idler; a loafer; a good-for-nothing. end page | MACARTHUR (DOUGLAS) - MALICE | MAN - MARINES | MARRIAGE | MARTYRS - MAUGHAM (WILLIAM SOMERSET) | MAXIMS - MEANNESS | MEDICINE - MEMORIAL DAY | MEMORIES - MEMORY | MEN - MEN v. 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