Today's Word – FECKLESS
A man who has money may be anxious, depressed, frustrated and unhappy, but one thing he's not--and that's broke.
Brendan Francis
Money ruins life: I mean, to have to think of it, to take account of it, to know that it is there. Men apart from money, men in an army, men of an expedition of exploration, emerge to a new life. Money is gone.
Stephen Leacock Model Memoirs
Priorities are reflected in the things we spend money on. Far from being a dry accounting of bookkeepers, a nation's budget is full of moral implications; it tells what a society cares about and what it does not care about; it tells what its values are.
Senator J. W. Fulbright, War: An Anthology
Money is a dream. It is a piece of paper on which is imprinted in invisible ink the dream of all the things it will buy, all the trinkets and all the power over others. A kind of institutionalized dream which, along with its companion dream-institution of Success, constitutes the main fantasy on which our way of life has been built.
David T. Bazelonf, The Paper Economy 1963
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac 1753
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
Kin Hubbard
Money is like a sixth sense, and you can't make use of the other five without it.
W. Somerset Maugham
Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
feck·less
adjective.
1. Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective. 2. Careless and irresponsible.
They were alike in good
dispositions, feckless morals, and personal appearance. They
were the models of the Sunday-school. At fifteen George had the opportunity to go as
cabin-boy
What is Man? and
Other Essays of Mark Twain.
By Twain, Mark (Samuel Langhorne Clemens).
Definition from American Heritage Dictionary
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ape, and were getting quite frustrated
trying to keep the tape along the pole. It kept
falling down, etc. A mathematician comes along, finds out their problem, and proceeds to
remove the pole from the ground and measure it easily.