Austen Jane 1775-1817
Mansfield Park
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.
Keynes John Maynard 1883-1946
General Theory
We take it as a fundamental psychological rule of any modern community that, when its real income is increased, it will notincrease its consumption by an equal absolute amount.
Nelson John Kirk
More and more these days I find myself pondering on how to reconcile my net income with my gross habits.
Parkinson Northcote 1909-1993
The Law and the Profits
Expenditure rises to meet income.
Smith Logan Pearsall 1865-1946
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
Tawney R.H. 1880-1962
If a man has important work, and enough leisure and income to enable him to do it properly, he is in possession of as much happiness as is
good for any of the children of Adam.
Raymond F.J.
Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.
Gilder George
Poverty is less a matter of income than of prospects. While the incomes of the poor have steadily risen through Great Society largesse, their prospects have plummeted as families have broken into dependent fragments.
Saki (Hector Hugh Monro) 1870-1916
Chronicles of Clovis
All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren't respectable live beyond other peoples'.