“Never bummy; sip rummy, get money”

— Big L (rapper)

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American rapper 1974–1999

Maurice Sendak (1928–2012) American illustrator and writer of children's books

Source: Chicken Soup With Rice: A Book of Months

“Never get between a Premier and a bucket of money.”

Paul Keating (1944) Australian politician, 24th Prime Minister of Australia

as quoted in a 2014 Daily Telegraph article http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/all-riled-up-over-an-empty-bucket/news-story/93c0bff6a075170852189ba9a7480365

“Mynheer Vandunck, though he never was drunk,
Sipped brandy and water gayly.”

George Colman the Younger (1762–1836) English dramatist and writer

Mynheer Vandunck, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“"Did you ever taste beer?" "I had a sip of it once," said the small servant. "Here's a state of things!" cried Mr Swiveller, raising his eyes to the ceiling. "She never tasted it — it can't be tasted in a sip!"”

Charles Dickens book The Old Curiosity Shop

Source: The Old Curiosity Shop (1841), Ch. 57

“Rickey had all the money and all the players and never let the two get together.”

Branch Rickey (1881–1965) American baseball player and coach

Ralph Kiner, speaking on April 15, 2004, Jackie Robinson Day, in the FSNY broadcast booth; as quoted in "Dog Gone? No Way; Russo Listens to Heart, Stays with FAN" by Bob Raissman, in New York Daily News (April 18, 2004), p. 85

“And there's never gonna be enough money
And there's never gonna be enough drugs
And I'm never ever gonna get old
There's never gonna be enough bullets
There's never gonna be enough sex
And I'm never ever gonna get old
So I'm never ever gonna get high
And I'm never ever gonna get low
And I'm never ever gonna get old”

David Bowie (1947–2016) British musician, actor, record producer and arranger

"Never Get Old"
Song lyrics, Reality (2003)

“I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success.”

Ingrid Bergman (1915–1982) Film actress from Sweden

"The Last Word - A Treasury of Women's Quotes," by Carolyn Warner, 1992

“Get money; still get money, boy,
No matter by what means.”

Ben Jonson Every Man in His Humour

Act ii, Scene 3. Compare: "Get place and wealth,—if possible, with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place", Alexander Pope, Horace, book i. epistle i. line 103
Every Man in His Humour (1598)

“Living on the bodies of mammals, oxpeckers manage to get quite a varied diet. A maggot here, a tick there, a little sip of blood, perhaps a little tasty earwax.”

David Attenborough (1926) British broadcaster and naturalist

"The Insatiable Appetites"
The Life of Birds (1998)

“Ask a great money-maker what he wants to do with his money, — he never knows. He doesn't make it to do anything with it. He gets it only that he may get it. "What will you make of what you have got?"”

John Ruskin (1819–1900) English writer and art critic

you ask. "Well, I'll get more," he says. Just as at cricket, you get more runs. There's no use in the runs, but to get more of them than other people is the game. So all that great foul city of London there, — rattling, growling, smoking, stinking, — a ghastly heap of fermenting brickwork, pouring out poison at every pore, — you fancy it is a city of work? Not a street of it! It is a great city of play; very nasty play and very hard play, but still play.

The Crown of Wild Olive, lecture I: Work, sections 23-24 (1866)

“Never bummy; sip rummy, get money”

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