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Helen Gurley Brown: Having Comfort in Misery
on Thursday, December 22, 2011Funny Helen Gurley Brown Money Quotation saying saying comfort may be at least partially equated to happiness and there is nothing wrong with misery loving comfort. Helen Gurley Brown said:
“Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort” — Helen Gurley Brown
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In this quote, Helen Gurley Brown acknowledges that while money alone does not guarantee happiness, it can provide comforts that make enduring misery or hardship somewhat more bearable.
Even if wealth does not lift one’s mood or fulfillment, Brown suggests it eliminates many practical worries and stresses over basic needs. So her point seems to be that money may not motivate or inspire, but it does cushion the blows of sadness or difficulties in life by removing anxieties over livelihood.
In a somewhat tongue-in-cheek way, she’s commenting that financial security at least allows misery to be experienced without additional complications or suffering related to poverty.
Birthday: February 18, 1922 – August 13, 2012
Voltaire: Comfort & Abundance of Poor
on Tuesday, October 4, 2011Money Quotation – It takes light to know darkness and opposites do attract, but sometimes they clash as in the case of wealth and poverty. Voltaire said:
“The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor” — Voltaire
Voltaire is pointing out that the wealthy rely on the existence of poorer classes of people in order to maintain their comfortable lifestyle. If there were no poor, there would be no one to perform low-paying jobs that support the rich, such as servants, manual laborers, etc.
So Voltaire is arguing that the rich benefit from and depend on having a large population of poor people who are able and willing to work for low wages. In other words, inequality between the rich and poor is what allows the rich to live so comfortably according to Voltaire.
Birthday: November 21, 1694 – Death: May 30, 1778