A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

Monday see Monday’s CHILD is fair of face.
MONEY can’t buy happiness
A recurrent theme in invectives against materialism down the ages, but this formulation of it appears to be comparatively recent.

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  1856 G. C. BALDWIN Representative Women 215 Gold cannot buy happiness, and parents who compel their daughters to marry for money, or station, commit a grievous sin against humanity and God. 1873 E. KELLOGG Arthur Brown vii. 118 ‘I had rather have friends who love me for my own sake . . than all the money in the world.’ ‘Money won’t buy happiness, Walter.’ 1984 ANON. in R. Byrne Other 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1985) I. no. 220 Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop. 2002 Washington Post 19 June C15 (Blondie comic strip)’Bumstead, your problem is that you worry too much about money. Money can’t buy happiness, you know.’ ‘Has it bought you happiness, boss?’ ‘Yeah, but that’s just me!’ "happiness; money
  

MONEY has no smell
L. non olet, it [money] does not smell. Titus, son of the Roman emperor Vespasian, had criticized a tax on public lavatories. Vespasian held a coin from the first payment to his son’s nose and asked him whether the smell was offensive. Titus said no. Vespasian replied ‘And yet it comes from urine’ (Suetonius Vespasian xxiii).
□1914 ‘E. BRAMAH’ Max Carrados 45 The Romans, Parkinson, had a saying to the effect that gold carries no smell. That is a pity sometimes. What jewellery did Miss Hutchins wear? 1922 A. BENNETT Mr. Prohack iii. The associations of the wealth scarcely affected him. He understood in the flesh the deep wisdom of that old proverb.. that money has no smell. 1940 R. CHANDLER Farewell, my Lovely xxxiv. He punched the cash-register and dropped the bill into the drawer. They say money don’t stink. I sometimes wonder. 2002 Times 20 Feb. 3 Mr Justice Jacob.. asked rhetorically: ‘Should procurers, pimps, panders.. pay VAT? That is the question on this appeal.. In this case, as the Latin poet [sic] said, pecunia non olet—money doesn’t smell. I allow the appeal.’ ■ money