A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

MONEY isn’t everything
□1922 Vanity Fair Sept. 39 (heading) Money Isn’t Everything. 1927 E. O’NEILL Marco Millions iii. Money isn’t everything, not always. a 1947 F. THOMPSON Still glides Stream (1948) ii. He said quite angrily that money was not everything, there was the satisfaction of knowing you’d turned out a good job. 1975 J. I. M. STEWART Young Pattullo xv. If one owns property one can always have a little money follow one around. But we all know that money isn’t everything. 2007 Times2 5 July 7 Ah yes, he said glumly, but the hours are relentless, the people dismal and the work very dull. Besides . . money isn’t everything. "money
MONEY is power
A more worldly alternative to KNOWLEDGE is power.

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  1741 N. AMES Almanack 4 Laws bear Name, but Money has the Power. 1789 F. AMES Letter 16 May in Works (1854) I. 39 Money is power, a permanent revenue is permanent power, and the credit which it would give was a safeguard to the government. 1818 M. EDGEWORTH Letter 13 Oct. (1971) 115 Now he had money ‘and money is power’. 1930 MEANS & THACKER Strange Death of President Harding iv. One can do nothing—be nothing, without money, not even in the White House. Money is power. 1980 J. O’FAOLAIN No Country for Young Men i. The lads would have to have.. money if they were to get guns. .. Money was power. "money; power
  

MONEY is the root of all evil
Cf. I TIMOTHY vi. 10 (AV) The love of money is the root of all evil. Both the biblical original and the shorter version are current.

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  с 1000 AELFRIC Homilies (1843) I. 256 Seo gytsung is ealra yfelra thinga wyrtruma [covetousness is the root of all evil things]. c 1449 R. PECOCK Repressor of Blaming of Clergy (1860) II. 555 Loue to money.. is worthi to be forborn.. as Poul seith, it is ‘the roote of al yuel’. 1616 J. WITHALS Diet. (rev. ed.) 546 Riches are the root of all euill. 1777 in L. H. Butterfield et al. Adams Family Correspondence (1963) II. 345 Many have been loth to believe.. That Money is the Root of all Evil. 1858 TROLLOPE Dr. Thorne I. xii. ‘But, doctor, you’ll take the money.’.. ‘Quite impossible.. ‘ said the doctor,.. valiantly rejecting the root of all evil. 1978 W. L. DEANDREA Killed in Ratings ii. Magazines have got these funny little sayings. . . Here’s one. ‘Money is the root of all evil.. but that’s one evil I’m rooting for.’ 2001 R. HILL Dialogues of Dead xliii. 355 ‘Anyway there we have it, a dollar sign and a Roman coin. I suppose it could be some kind of statement about money being the root of all evil?’ "good and evil; money