#m

A friend told me that one day he and I would be rich and famous. I told him that I'd trade my half of the fame, for his half of the money. ↗

— Quentin R. Bufogle

#humorous #money #money

It is everyone's bounden duty to try to get more than they have got already. If you have got two shillin' you try to make it into four shillin' . . . there is no end to it. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#free-enterprise #money #money

I just realized my lips are inside out. They should be turned inwards, because I spend most of my time talking to myself. 
 ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#communication #inside-out #introvert #lips #lunatic

Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken! ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#inspirational #tyler-durden #humor

Love is, just like isn’t isn’t is. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#humor #love #truism #age

Making money is one thing, paying tax is another. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#money #tax #money

The sacrifices of time and money that Chinese friends will make for one another often go far beyond what is expected or accepted in Western society. ↗

— Larry Herzberg

#chinese #culture #language #proverbs #sayings

The dog show emphasizes bloodline, appearance, and comportment, but money and breeding are never far from anyone's mind. ↗

— Karen Joy Fowler

#money

Just yesterday I stood at the window and watched him run across the field like a young deer. He is thin and agile. I think he will be forever young. He cannot be enticed by money or worldly goods; he desires nothing. ↗

— Nancy B. Brewer

#money

If you imagine the 4,500-bilion-odd years of Earth's history compressed into a normal earthly day, then life begins very early, about 4 A.M., with the rise of the first simple, single-celled organisms, but then advances no further for the next sixteen hours. Not until almost 8:30 in the evening, with the day five-sixths over, has Earth anything to show the universe but a restless skin of microbes. Then, finally, the first sea plants appear, followed twenty minutes later by the first jellyfish and the enigmatic Ediacaran fauna first seen by Reginald Sprigg in Australia. At 9:04 P.M. trilobites swim onto the scene, followed more or less immediately by the shapely creatures of the Burgess Shale. Just before 10 P.M. plants begin to pop up on the land. Soon after, with less than two hours left in the day, the first land creatures follow. Thanks to ten minutes or so of balmy weather, by 10:24 the Earth is covered in the great carboniferous forests whose residues give us all our coal, and the first winged insects are evident. Dinosaurs plod onto the scene just before 11 P.M. and hold sway for about three-quarters of an hour. At twenty-one minutes to midnight they vanish and the age of mammals begins. Humans emerge one minute and seventeen seconds before midnight. The whole of our recorded history, on this scale, would be no more than a few seconds, a single human lifetime barely an instant. Throughout this greatly speeded-up day continents slide about and bang together at a clip that seems positively reckless. Mountains rise and melt away, ocean basins come and go, ice sheets advance and withdraw. And throughout the whole, about three times every minute, somewhere on the planet there is a flash-bulb pop of light marking the impact of a Manson-sized meteor or one even larger. It's a wonder that anything at all can survive in such a pummeled and unsettled environment. In fact, not many things do for long. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#science #time #age