Lighter side of money
"Whatever you have, spend less. No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money. "
Dr Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
“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 1884 - 1946
"Money is like muck, not good except it be spread."
Francis Bacon 1561 - 1626
"When you don’t have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it’s sex. When you have both it’s health."
JP Donleavy 1926
"Money, it turned out was like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did."
James Baldwin 1924 - 1987
"I’m tired of love: I’m still more tired of Rhyme. But money gives me pleasure all the time."
Hilaire Beloc 1870 – 1953
ENGLISH COINS
£2 Edge Inscription. Standing on the Shoulders of Giants - Designer Bruce Rushin.
£1 Edge Inscription. Decus Et Tutamen - Designer Various.
50p Designer Christopher Ironside
20p Designer William Gardner
10p Designer Christopher Ironside
5p Designer Christopher Ironside
2p Designer Christopher Ironside
1p Designer Christopher Ironside
MONEY SLANG
£1 Quid, Nugget, Dollar
£5 Jack, Blue, Godiva
£10 Tenner, Pavarotti, Cock
£20 Score
£25 Pony
£50 Bull’s eye
£100 Ton, Century
£500 Monkey
£1000 Grand, Rio (Grande)
£2000 Archer
Thrifitiness , a poem by Tusser in 1557
Every word begins with a T:
"The thrifty that teacheth the thriving to thrive,
Teach timely to traverse, the thing that thou 'trive,
Transferring thy toiling, to timeliness taught,
This teacheth thee temp’rance, to temper thy thought,
Take Trusty (to trust to) that thinkest to thee,
That trustily thriftiness trowleth to thee.
Then temper thy travel, to tarry the tide;
This teacheth thee thriftiness, twenty times tryed,
Take thankfull thy talent, thank thankfully those
That thriftily teach thee thy time to transpose.
Troth twice to thee teached, teach twenty times ten,
This trade thou that takest, take thrift to thee then."
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