MONEY MONEY
Quantum quisque sua nummorum condit in area,
Tantum habet et fidei.
Every man's credit is proportioned to the money which he has in his chest.
Plaratur lacrimis amissa pecunia veris.
Money lost is bewailed with unfeigned tears.
Crescit amor nummi quantum ipsa pecunia
crescit.
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
Dollar Diplomacy.
Luat in corpore, qui non habet in Eere.
Who can not pay with money, must pay with his body. Law Maxim. Nee quicquam acrius quam pecuniae damnum stimulat. Nothing stings more deeply than the loss of money. Lrvr—Annates. XXX. 44. </poem>
Take care of the pence, and the pounds will
take care of themselves.
William Lowndes, Sec. of Treasury under William III, George I.
| seealso = (See also Chesterfield, also Carroll under Sense)
Money brings honor, friends, conquest, and
realms.
| author = Milton
| work = Paradise Regained. Bk. II. L. 422
Les beaux yeux de ma cassette!
H parle d'elle comme un amant d'une maitresse.
The beautiful eyes of my money-box!
He speaks of it as a lover of his mistress.
Moiiere—L'Avare. V. 3.
Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go,
Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!
Omar Khayyam—Rvbaiyat. St. 13. FitzGerald's trans. ("Promise" for "credit";
"Music" for "rumble" in 2nd ed.)
In pretio pretium nunc est; dat census honores,
Census amicitias; pauper ubique jacet.
Money nowadays is money; money brings
oTice; money gains friends; everywhere the
poor man is down.
Ovid—Fasti. I. 217.
"Get Money, money still!
And then let virtue follow, if she will."
This, this the saving doctrine preach'd to all,
From low St. James' up to high St. Paul.
| author = Pope
| work = Fir-si Book of Horace. Ep. I. L. 79.
| seealso = (See also Jonson)
| topic = Money
| page = 523
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| num =
| text = <poem>Trade it may help, society extend,
But lures the Pirate, and corrupts the friend:
It raises armies in a nation's aid,'
But bribes a senate, and the land's betray'd.
Subject to a kind of disease, which at that
time they called lack of money.
Rabelais—Works. Bk. II. Ch. XVI.
Point d'argent, point de Suisse.
No money, no Swiss.
Racine—Plaideurs. I. 1.
When I was stamp'd, some coiner with his tools
Made me a counterfeit.
Cymbeline. Act II. Sc. 5. L. 5.
For they say; if money go before, all ways do
lie open.
Merry Wives of Windsor. Act II. Sc. 2. L.
173.
Money is a good soldier, sir, and will on.
Merry Wives of Windsor. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 175.
Why, give him gold enough and marry him
to a puppet or an aglet-baby or an old trot with
ne'er a tooth in her head, though she have as
many diseases as two-and-fifty horses; why,
nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal.
Taming of the Shrew. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 78.
But the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that
Honor feels.
| author = Tennyson
| work = Locksley Hall. St. 53.
Pecuniam in loco negligere maximum est lucrum.
To despise money on some occasions is a
very great gain.
Terence—Adelphi. n. 2. 8.
Not greedy of filthy lucre.
I Timothy. III. 3.
The love of money is the root of all evil.
I Timothy. VI. 10.
A fool and his money be soon at debate.
Tusser—Good Husbandry.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
George Buchanan, tutor to James VI. of
Scotland, to a courtier after winning a bet
as to -which could make the coarser verse.
See Walsh—Handy Book of Literary Curiosities.
It is money makes the mare to trot.
Wolcot—Ode to Pitt.
{{Hoyt quote
| num = | text = <poem>No, let the monarch's bags and coffers hold
The flattering, mighty, nay, aS-mighty gold. Wolcot—To Kieu Long. Ode IV.
| seealso = (See also {{sc|Living)
