The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go out to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save—the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor dust will devour: your capital. The less you are, the more you have.
Marx on the socially involved life. Moral: Help save the economy by living.
The net gain in money values is a more convincing reality than productive work or human livelihood.
Thorstein Veblen in The Theory of the Leisure Class. Moral: work on Wall St.
Desires still remain extremely enlarged while the means of satisfying them are diminished day by day. And, thus, on every side we trace the ravages of inordinate and unsuccessful ambition kindled in hearts which it consumes in secret and in vain.
Alexis de Tocqueville 1845 Moral: avoid BMW commercials..
“Free and poor! What fun!” The heiress of the fantastic “Diamond as big as the Ritz”
exclaims in anticipation of its demise and her escape. Her beau from the outside world corrects her, deadpan, “It’s impossible to be both together. People have found that out.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald Moral: Money makes the world go round.
The superrich make lousy neighbors; they buy a house and tear it down and build another, twice as big, and leave. Their money is a kind of poverty.
John Updike,”Slum Lords” Moral: downsize and stay content.
The US Tax Code is 16,000 pages long. Moral: Find a legal hiding place in it.
This is the only club where the bouncers throw the customers in…so drink, for Christ’s sake drink!
Ronnie Scott MBE, London jazz club owner Moral: Eat, drink and be merry
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