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11-17-2007, 02:09 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Psssst - Wellesley!
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11-17-2007, 03:11 PM
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Dryer sheet aficionado
Join Date: Mar 2006
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Originally Posted by spncity
Some people misquote and say, "Money is the root of all evil." That's not what it says. The correct version of the quotation is "The love of money is the root of all evil."
But it's really about how we use it. I like this one:
"Money is the root of all good."
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I like this one too: "The lack of money is the root of all evil." (Attributed to many--my fridge magnet says George Bernard Shaw)
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11-17-2007, 08:56 PM
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#43
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Feb 2006
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My favorite thing to tell my four year old when he asks "why did you do that" is...
It seemed like a good idea at the time. I tend to live my life that way. If it seems like a good idea I do it... if it doesn't work out.. oh well, it seemed like a good idea at the time.
You can apply that statement to just about anything you have done, and its true. If it didn't seem like a good idea at the time, you probably didn't do it...  Since you did it.. It seemed like a good idea at the time. Even the stupid things you do... if you think hard enough.. they did seem like a good idea at the time... You wouldn't get caught, you would impress somebody, nothing could go wrong... It seemed like a good idea at the time didn't it?
"Dad, why did you cook green beans?"... "Why did you go right?"... "Why are we going to X?".. My answer: "Seemed like a good idea at the time". What I'm really waiting for is for him to use it on me when I question why he did something. It will just crack me up 
The day he does that I'm just gonna have to laugh...
Laters,
-d.
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11-18-2007, 06:59 AM
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#44
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Dryer sheet aficionado
Join Date: Feb 2005
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For the gambling and get-rich-quick type.
"The quickest way to double your money is to fold it up and put it in your pocket." 
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11-18-2007, 09:33 AM
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#45
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Recycles dryer sheets
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Money won't buy happiness, but it'll make one hell of a down payment.
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11-18-2007, 10:09 AM
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Moderator Emeritus
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dgalbraith100
My favorite thing to tell my four year old when he asks "why did you do that" is...
It seemed like a good idea at the time. I tend to live my life that way. If it seems like a good idea I do it... if it doesn't work out.. oh well, it seemed like a good idea at the time.
You can apply that statement to just about anything you have done, and its true. If it didn't seem like a good idea at the time, you probably didn't do it... Since you did it.. It seemed like a good idea at the time. Even the stupid things you do... if you think hard enough.. they did seem like a good idea at the time... You wouldn't get caught, you would impress somebody, nothing could go wrong... It seemed like a good idea at the time didn't it?
"Dad, why did you cook green beans?"... "Why did you go right?"... "Why are we going to X?".. My answer: "Seemed like a good idea at the time". What I'm really waiting for is for him to use it on me when I question why he did something. It will just crack me up
The day he does that I'm just gonna have to laugh...
Laters,
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I remember a variant on this from college:
"At the time, it made sense."
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11-18-2007, 12:00 PM
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#47
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: South Texas~29N/98W Just West of Woman Hollering Creek
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October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February" --Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson
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Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. Groucho Marx
In dire need of: faster horses, younger woman, older whiskey, more money.
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11-18-2007, 06:43 PM
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#48
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Indianapolis
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The sweetness of low price is long forgot after the bitterness of poor quality and service sets in.
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11-18-2007, 08:04 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Willamette Valley, Oregon
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I've been rich and I've been poor. Richer is better.
Mae West (I think)
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11-18-2007, 08:10 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Willamette Valley, Oregon
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RetireeRobert
I've been rich and I've been poor. Richer is better.
Mae West (I think)
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Actually, it was Sophie Tucker:
Quote Details: Sophie Tucker: I've been rich and... - The Quotations Page
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11-18-2007, 08:51 PM
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Administrator
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Location: N. Yorkshire
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I avoided the stock and bond market for a very long time, and I think this quote had something to tempt me in some 15 years ago.
"You won't win the lottery if you don't buy a ticket"
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Enough private pension and SS income to cover all needs
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11-18-2007, 09:05 PM
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#52
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jun 2005
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If you want to be rich, don't live like you're rich before you're rich.... 
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11-18-2007, 09:26 PM
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#53
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Massachusetts
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Don’t throw good money after bad
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11-18-2007, 11:07 PM
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#54
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: May 2007
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I can't afford to waste my time making money.
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Not really all proverbs but they're stuck in my head
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11-19-2007, 11:42 AM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
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Not really all proverbs but they're stuck in my head
My mom or my dad:
"No money, no honey"
Something trite I always used to hear:
"Time is money".
The Beatles, in a song I like:
"The best things in life are free
But you can keep them for the birds and bees
Now give me money
That's what I want
That's what I want, yeah
That's what I want..."
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11-19-2007, 01:55 PM
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#56
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Fort Collins
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"Live every day as if it is your last and pretty soon you'll be right."
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11-19-2007, 02:01 PM
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#57
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: No Country for Old Men
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jake46
"Live every day as if it is your last and pretty soon you'll be right."
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Now there's an optometristic outlook on life if I ever saw one... 
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Numbers is hard
Retired in 2005 at age 58, no pension
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11-19-2007, 05:31 PM
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#58
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jul 2007
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"don't get your honey where you get your money" ....who knows where it came from...
and
"use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without"...used profusely by my Dad, but I'm clueless about the origination.
Rambler
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11-19-2007, 05:55 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Columbus
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Don't worry, that money isn't going to burn a hole in your pocket.
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11-20-2007, 01:38 AM
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#60
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Dec 2005
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Do for 5 years what most won't do and you can live better the rest of your life than most will.
It seems to work if the 5 years is education or saving money. I have seen many times where one struggled to get a good education, save for a down payment on a house, do without and get a foot hold and end up in a better place even if they don't kill themselves forever.
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