Friday
All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy
- Spike Milligan
When I checked my high yield investment portfolio earlier this week, the first three numbers matched exactly. Sadly, the last three were nowhere near so I have once again lost the chance to test Spike's hypothesis.
Oh well, a tenner is still a tenner.
Posted by Kevin B at November 16, 2007 06:12 PM
"All I want of the world is very little. I only want the best of everything and there is so little of that."
(Michael Arlen on publication of "The Green Hat", quoted in "The Big Spenders", 1966, by Lucius Beebe)
Posted by Billy Beck at November 16, 2007 07:05 PM
Spike was right.
Without money ("resources" as we are supposed to say) everything else is pointless - it is pointless because one is dead.
Posted by Paul Marks at November 16, 2007 07:55 PM
Well, it might not be able to make you happy, but at least you can be miserable in comfort.
Posted by Louise Zbozny at November 16, 2007 09:22 PM
Quite so Louise.
And nor is just a question of comfort - it is a matter of survival.
"Life is not the only thing".
True enough, but some of us find it hard to summon up the courage for the so called "coward's way out".
Posted by Paul Marks at November 16, 2007 10:27 PM
Not original, but..........
Those who claim that money doesn't buy happiness have absolutely no idea where they should do their shopping
Posted by permanentexpat at November 16, 2007 11:00 PM
One of my favourite variants, by Terry Pratchett:
Money don't buy happiness, Gytha.
I only wanted to rent it for a few weeks.
Posted by the other rob at November 17, 2007 06:48 AM
I reflected that there is nothing less material than money, since any coin whatsoever (let us say a coin worth twenty centavos) is, strictly speaking, a repertory of possible futures. Money is abstract, I repeated; money is the future tense. It can be an evening in the suburbs, or music by Brahms; it can be maps, or chess, or coffee; it can be the words of Epictetus teaching us to despise gold; it is a Proteus more versatile than the one on the isle of Pharos. It is unforeseeable time, Bergsonian time, not the rigid time of Islam or the Porch. The determinists deny there is such a thing in the world as a single possible act, id est an act that could or could not happen; a coin symbolizes man's free will.
Jorge Luis Borges, The Zahir.
Posted by Nick M at November 17, 2007 12:53 PM
My favourite Spike quote: "I learned everything from my father. He was a lunatic."
Posted by Johnathan Pearce at November 17, 2007 04:30 PM
