Careful Words

money (n.)

money (adv.)

With books and money plac'd for show

Like nest-eggs to make clients lay,

And for his false opinion pay.

Samuel Butler (1600-1680): Hudibras. Part iii. Canto iii. Line 624.

  Health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of,—a blessing that money cannot buy.

Izaak Walton (1593-1683): The Complete Angler. Part i. Chap. 21.

Nothing comes amiss; so money comes withal.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): The Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Sc. 2.

Put money in thy purse.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Othello. Act i. Sc. 3.

'T is money makes the man; and he who's none

Is counted neither good nor honourable.

Diogenes Laertius (Circa 200 a d): Thales. vii.

  He preferred an honest man that wooed his daughter, before a rich man. "I would rather," said Themistocles, "have a man that wants money than money that wants a man."

Plutarch (46(?)-120(?) a d): Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders. Themistocles.

  He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.

For what is worth in anything

But so much money as 't will bring?

Samuel Butler (1600-1680): Hudibras. Part ii. Canto i. Line 465.

  For words are wise men's counters,—they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools.

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679): The Leviathan. Part i. Chap. iv.

  Thy money perish with thee.

New Testament: Acts viii. 20.

  [The rich] are indeed rather possessed by their money than possessors.

Robert Burton (1576-1640): Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 12.

  Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publius Syrus (42 b c): Maxim 656.

Get money; still get money, boy,

No matter by what means.

Ben Jonson (1573-1637): Every Man in his Humour. Act ii. Sc. 3.

  The love of money is the root of all evil.

New Testament: 1 Timothy vi. 10.

  Remember that time is money.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790): Advice to a Young Tradesman, 1748.

  After meat comes mustard; or, like money to a starving man at sea, when there are no victuals to be bought with it.

Miguel De Cervantes (1547-1616): Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. viii.