(Billy Wilder (b. 1906), Austrian-born U.S. film director, producer, writer, and Charles Brackett (1892-1969), U.S. screenwriter. Phillips (Walter Abel), Arise My Love, after Augusta gets a plum assignment in Berlin, and four other times during the film (1940).)
Money will never make you happy and happy will never make you money. That may be a wise crack, but I doubt it.
(Morrie Ryskind, U.S. screenwriter, Robert Florey, and Joseph Santley. Mr. Hammer (Groucho Marx), The Cocoanuts, as the Florida hotel owner explains value of money to bellboys he is trying not to pay (1929).
Ryskind adapted this film from original Broadway play by George Kaufman.)
Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.
(Solon (c. 640-558 B.C.), Greek statesman, poet.
In answer to the fabulously wealthy Croesus, who asked him who was the happiest man Solon had encountered on his travels—expecting Solon to name Croesus himself. Croesus dismissed Solon, only to remember his words when sentenced to death following his disastrous invasion of Persia (though the sentence was rescinded when the Persian king, Cyrus, heard the tale). The story is related by Herodotus in his Histories, bk. 1, though has no historical basis: Solon died before he could have met Croesus.)
