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MONEY isn't everything
1927Marco Millions
iii.
Money isn't everything, not always.
a
1947
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
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.
money
MONEY is power
A more worldly alternative to
KNOWLEDGE is power
.
1741
Almanack
4
Laws bear Name, but Money has the Power.
1789
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
Letter
13 Oct. (1971) 115
Now he had money ‘and money is power’.
1930
Strange Death of President Harding
iv.
One can do nothing—be nothing, without money, not even in the White House. Money is power.
1980
No Country for Young Men
i.
The lads would have to have .. money if they were to get guns… Money was power.
money
;
power
KNOWLEDGE is power
.
1741Almanack
4
Laws bear Name, but Money has the Power.
1789
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
Letter
13 Oct. (1971) 115
Now he had money ‘and money is power’.
1930
Strange Death of President Harding
iv.
One can do nothing—be nothing, without money, not even in the White House. Money is power.
1980
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.
c
1000
Homilies
(1843) I. 256
Seo gytsung is ealra yfelra thinga wyrtruma [covetousness is the root of all evil things].
c
1449
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
Dict.
(rev. ed.) 546
Riches are the root of all euill.
1777
in et al.
Adams Family Correspondence
(1963) II. 345
Many have been loth to believe .. That Money is the Root of all Evil.
1858
Dr. Thorne
I. xii.
‘But, doctor, you'll take the money.’ .. ‘Quite impossible..’ said the doctor, .. valiantly rejecting the root of all evil.
1978
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’.
1990
English School of Murder
xviii.
It'll be the partner, you mark my words. It's true about money being the root of all evil.
1995
Washington Times
21 May B1
This latest financial scandal affecting people who should know that ‘the love of money is the root of all evil’ ought to prove again the danger of building huge organizations .. that must constantly be fed from charitable resources.
good and evil
;
money
c1000
Homilies
(1843) I. 256
Seo gytsung is ealra yfelra thinga wyrtruma [covetousness is the root of all evil things].
c
1449
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
Dict.
(rev. ed.) 546
Riches are the root of all euill.
1777
in et al.
Adams Family Correspondence
(1963) II. 345
Many have been loth to believe .. That Money is the Root of all Evil.
1858
Dr. Thorne
I. xii.
‘But, doctor, you'll take the money.’ .. ‘Quite impossible..’ said the doctor, .. valiantly rejecting the root of all evil.
1978
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’.
1990
English School of Murder
xviii.
It'll be the partner, you mark my words. It's true about money being the root of all evil.
1995
Washington Times
21 May B1
This latest financial scandal affecting people who should know that ‘the love of money is the root of all evil’ ought to prove again the danger of building huge organizations .. that must constantly be fed from charitable resources.
good and evil;
money
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