Wealth & Society Ponderers Gifts

"A philanthropist is a man who gives away publicly a fortune he should really be giving back."

Rich man vomiting euros to a beggar.

God not-too-happy with the Humans sticking a 'Closing DOWN Sale!' sign on planet Earth

"I'm learning to live with existence."

'I had considered a career as an offshore commodities broker specialising in securitised asset transfers but the pension wasn't as good.'

Ten Commandments

'As I recall you were the one who told him that he couldn't take it with him.'

"Well, of course we married industrialists. All three of us were young and beautiful, and smokestack America looked like it would last forever."

'The growing disparity of income is a tribute to our acumen.'

"If we take a late retirement and an early death, we'll just squeak by."

"Life isn't fair, and that's what makes it fun."

"The industry has agreed to take the pensions dashboard off our hands. . ."

"Great, now we're lost."

'It's nice but will it be a hedge against inflation.'

"The pension crisis prompted me to consider alternative invstments. Like Roulette."

Trumped

Karine Jean-Pierre

The rich, the poor and the terrorist...

"The arc of the moral universe."

The Poor Man Donating Love to the Rich

"No one has actually ever tried it before...so apparently you CAN take it with you!"

"Nobody wants to hear our stories about death from natural causes."

'The rot set in when I started doing these things in my own image - my early stuff was better.'

'Have you ever thought that being damned for all eternity to a lake of eternal fire might mask a deeper problem?'

'How rich is too rich?'

'You know what I really miss? -- living dangerously.'

A batch of bills are abandoned near the end of the parliamentry session

'It's always so sad when they repossess.'

"Well...this constant badness is just sooo wearisome...."

"I gave him a public education Artie ol' boy. . . you should know by now that government schools are one of my best minion corporations!"

'Jeeves...Jeeves...'

"Sometimes it's good to just pause and reflect on how obscenely rich we are."

"As requested, we're going to go over you retirement fund, so, if at all possible, let's hold questions until I have finished and I'm out in the parking lot starting my car."

"You have nothing to complain about....your side is growing too!"