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MONEY, like manure, does no good till it is spread



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MONEY, like manure, does no good till it is spread

  • 1625 F. BACON ‘Of Seditions and Troubles’ in Essays 85 Money is like muck; not good except it be spread. 1816 W. MAVOR English Spelling-Book (ed. 198) 103 Money, like manure, does no good till it is spread. 2001 Las Vegas Review-Journal 7 Oct. (electronic ed.) ‘Jack always says,’ Wagner recalled, ‘money’s like manure. You’ve got to spread it around in your company to make things grow. "money

MONEY makes a man
Cf. L. divitiae virum faciunt, wealth makes the man.
a 1500 in R. L. Greene Early English Carols (1935) 263 Yt ys allwayes sene now- adayes That money makythe the man. a 1661 T. FULLER Worthies (Hants.) 3 We commonly say.. In the Change [Exchange], Money makes a man, which puts him in a solvable condition. 1828 BULWER-LYTTON Pelham I. xxxiv. The continent only does for us English people to see. . . Here, you know, ‘money makes the man.’ 1920 D. H. LAWRENCE Letter 7 May (1962) I. 629 Money maketh a man; even if he was a monkey to start with. 1950 C. E. VULLIAMY Henry Plumdew 203 I doubt whether he understands the place of money in vulgar estimation. . . Money maketh man. «money
MONEY makes money
1572 T. WILSON Discourse upon Usury 54V Mony getteth money. a 1654 J. SELDEN Table-Talk (1689) 57 ‘Tis a vain thing to say, Money begets not Money; for that no doubt it does. 1776 A. SMITH Wealth of Nations I. I. ix. Money, says the proverb, makes money. When you have got a little, it is often easy to get more. 1865 DICKENS Our Mutual Friend III. v. We have got to recollect that money makes money, as well as makes everything else. 1935 A. CHRISTIE Miss Marple’s Final Cases (1979) 60 Everything she did turned out well. Money made money. 1988 C. H. SAWYER J. Alfred Prufrock Murders v. Well.. maybe she made some clever investments? But no, she would have had to have money to begin with—it takes money to make money, my husband always said. "money

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