The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of it, is this-they throw it away as soon as they get it on the first whim or extravagance that strikes them, and have nothing left to meet ordinary expenses or discharge old debts.


Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt]. (ed. 1837)

William Hazlitt Quotes

The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of it, is this-they throw it away as soon...

The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of it, is this-they throw it away as soon...

The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of it, is this-they throw it away as soon...

The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of it, is this-they throw it away as soon...