In keeping with the trend of covering the global meltdown we present some funny financial quotes sourced from the Internet.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

— Alan Alda

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

— E.E. Cummings

Money can't buy happiness; it can, however, rent it.

— Anonymous

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

— J. Paul Getty

You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony.

— John Barrymore

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

— Anonymous

Nothing more clearly show how little
God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other world goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.

— Jean De La Bruyere

If you lend someone $20, and never see that person again; it was probably worth it.

— Anonymous

If you want to say it with flowers, a single rose says: "I'm cheap!"

— Delta Burke

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it rains.

— Robert Frost

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

— Robert Orben

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

— Kin Hubbard

Don't marry for money. You can borrow it cheaper.

— Scotts Proverb

I don't like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves.

— Joe Louis