The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs (375 page)

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MONEY makes a man
Cf. L.
divitiae virum faciunt
, wealth makes the man.
a
1500
in
Early English Carols
(1935) 263
Yt ys allwayes sene nowadayes That money makythe the man.
a
1661
Worthies
(Hants) 3
We commonly say .. In the Change [Exchange], Money makes a man, which puts him in a solvable condition.
1828
Pelham
I. xxxiv.
The continent only does for us English people to see… Here, you know, ‘money makes the man’.
1920
Letter
7 May (1962) I. 629
Money maketh a man; even if he was a monkey to start with.
1950
Henry Plumdew
203
I doubt whether he understands the place of money in vulgar estimation… Money maketh man.
money
MONEY makes money
1572
Discourse upon Usury
54
V
Mony getteth money.
a
1654
Table-Talk
(1689) 57
'Tis a vain thing to say, Money begets not Money; for that no doubt it does.
1776
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
Our Mutual Friend
III
. v.
We have got to recollect that money makes money, as well as makes everything else.
1935
Miss Marple's Final Cases
(1979) 60
Everything she did turned out well. Money made money.
1988
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
MONEY makes the mare to go
a
1500
in
Early English Carols
(1935) 262
In the heyweyes [highways] ther joly [spirited] palfreys Yt [money] makyght to .. praunce.
1573
Garden of Pleasure
105
V
Money makes the horsse to goe.
1670
English Proverbs
122
It's money makes the mare to go.
1748
Clarissa
IV
. 187
A leading man in the House of Commons, is a very important character; because that house has the giving of money: And
Money makes the mare to go
.
1857
Two Years Ago
p. xvi.
I'm making the mare go here .. without the money too, sometimes. I'm steward now.
1930
Mystery at Newton Ferry
xiii.
'Tis money makes the mare go …They're all after it, every one of them.
1978
Countryman
Spring 193
Weardale farmer's advice to daughter about to reject a proposal of marriage from a wealthy tradesman: ‘Never cock your snoop at money, my lass, 'cos it's money that makes the mare to go.’
money

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