Jean Kerr Quotes

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.

The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.

Money can't buy poverty.

The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a lot of money can buy you a little more happiness. But in both cases, money does it.

Ignorant people are apt to overrate the value of what is called education. The sons of the poor, having suffered the privations of poverty, think of wealth as the mother of joy.

Though I knew that poverty certainly didn't buy happiness, I wasn't convinced that money did, either.

My family didn't have a lot of money, and I'm grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness.

With money you are a dragon; with no money, a worm.

‘Money can't buy happiness.’ That's just a lie we tell poor people to keep them from rioting in the streets

Confidence in the future -- Hope -- gives power to individuals and communities. It is that which enables the poor man to become rich, and the character of all legislative action is to be judged by its greater or lesser tendency to produce this effect.

I know people who are wealthy and they're miserable.

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

Money is just the poor man's credit card.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness.

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.

I would be the first to say that while a lack of money can cause misery, money doesn't buy you happiness.

Constantly having to think about money is not nice. People used to say, 'Being rich doesn't make you happy'. And I'd think, 'I've got no electricity, nothing - tell that to my empty fridge'.

Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.

Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year.

Show me a man with very little money and I will show you a bum.

I wasn't rich.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

Richer people tend to be happier than poor people, and people in poor countries tend to be less happy than people in rich countries.