Give a hippie too much money and anything can happen.
… an avalanche of avarice
The federal government cannot maintain a budget surplus any more than an alcoholic can leave a fresh bottle of whiskey untouched in the cupboard.
I spent ninety percent of my money on wine, women and song and just wasted the other ten percent.
I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.
The debt and the deficit is just getting out of control, and the administration is still pumping through billions upon trillions of new spending. That does not grow the economy.
I buy everything in sight. It took my last ounce of control not to buy one of these in every color.
I never check my bank account. I know that sounds crazy. But I don't know how much is in there. I never know how much is in there. I have an idea - I have a bottom line - but I never look because I always make believe there's never anything in there.
Part of it went on gambling, and part of it went on women. The rest I spent foolishly.
When I like something, I wear it into the ground, then really regret it.
There is a seeming impropriety in leaving any set of men without control to put their hand into the public coffers, to take out money to put in their pockets.
At the age of 19, I removed myself from society for almost four months, setting off years of manic episodes, including outrageous overspending. I bought several Mercedes because I thought I could. I had no money, but I rented a jet.
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
The biggest change we have to tackle that's out there is that we're digging the hole deeper and deeper and spending is totally out of control. And that's something that, quite frankly, is affecting future generations. You're giving a lot of debt to them and you can't keep doing it. It's not helping anybody.
You can’t give a man a blank check and then ask him why there’s no money in the bank.
People willy-nilly borrow for consumption. Civil servants willy-nilly borrow for consumption and then wonder why they don't have enough money at the end of the month.
The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want.
I'm an impulse buyer. I don't really go out with a list.
In the Premier League, the money is a problem, but I don't really know how to control it.
I went broke after sophomore year, gambled away all my money, sold some guns, turned $750 into $10,000, flew to Vegas, turned ten thou into $187,000.
The root of most all problems we have today is the uncontrollable appetite of politicians in Washington to dish it out.
If you're betting all the time, everything is just another bet. You don't even think about the money after you've made the arrangements. You're used to it.
The sheer magnitude of Speaker Pelosi's spending spree is mind boggling. Most of us do not use the number 1,000,000,000,000 in our daily lives, so it is difficult to attach tangible value to the figure.
There is not an amount of money that a writer can earn that I can't blow.
When you're willing to play poker for two days and lose millions of dollars, it's no longer recreation. It's taking over.
