The Republicans are running wild with our tax dollars and it's been a mistake to let this administration continue a policy of incompetence when it comes to Iraq.
Gambling is a most foolish and imprudent pursuit.
We could say the government spend like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors, because the sailors are spending their own money.
In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
I have done stupid with a lot of zeros on the end of it. I know what it looks like.
To be honest, most of my troubles - bankruptcy, drinking, gambling - were self-inflicted.
My first car, I got it in an auction at my temple. It was an '86 Volvo that I got for 500 bucks, and then wound up throwing $10,000 into the stereo system and put TVs in the foot rests. It was the most ridiculous Volvo you'd ever seen, but I had never had money before and I was out of my mind.
Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted.
I must have gone through $10 million during my career. Part of the loot went for gambling, part for horses and part for women. The rest I spent foolishly.
I spent ninety percent of my money on wine, women and song and just wasted the other ten percent.
They who have nothing to loose, are generally of the Party for Paper Money; this ought to be a strong Prejudice against it, with sober thinking Men.
I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.
There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. That is delaying the day. Night life is when you get up with a hangover in the morning. Night life is when everybody says what the hell and you do not remember who paid the bill. Night life goes round and round and you look at the wall to make it stop. Night life comes out of a bottle and goes into a jar. If you think how much are the drinks it is not night life.
Of course I gamble, to make the games interesting. But five hundred dollars a game, tops. Or sometimes a thousand. No heart attack bets.
Everywhere you look in Washington, you can find examples of financial mismanagement.
Iceland is a rich country, but in the early 21st century, this prosperity got to our heads, and in 2008, it collapsed.
Debt means you had more fun than you were supposed to.
Taxpayer money should not have to be spent to save a misguided and mismanaged enterprise.
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.
What is dishonestly got vanishes in profligacy.
We spend our way to the poorhouse. We buy giant TVs and iPads. Our children wear nice clothes thanks to high-interest credit cards and payday loans. We purchase homes we don't need, refinance them for more spending money, and declare bankruptcy, often leaving them full of garbage in our wake. Thrift is inimical to our being.
In two years, I spent all my money on cars, watches, boots, discos, restaurants, and friends who, in reality, were not friends at all. For a boy like me, who grew up in a poor neighbourhood and without money, it was dangerous.
I am what I am; you can like it or love it. It feels good to blow fifty grand and think nothing of it.
If I'm greedy and keep chasing the money, it's inevitable I will be beaten one day.
