Jane Austen - C Northcote Parkinson - Charles Dickens - Hector Hugh Munro - Oscar Wilde - Noam Chomsky -
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, 1814
Expenditure rises to meet income. C Northcote Parkinson, The Law and the Profits, 1960
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds naught and six, result misery. Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, Mr Micawber
All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren’t responsible live beyond other people’s. Hector Hugh Munro, Chronicles of Clovis, 1911
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. Oscar Wilde
If you’re working fifty hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option. Noam Chomsky