The love of money is the mother of all evil. Phocylides (6th Cent. B.C.)
Lack of money is the root of all evil. George Bernard Shaw:.MAXIMS FOR REVOLUTIONISTS.
Get money by fair means if you can; if not, get money. Horace: E PISTLES I
Money without honor is a disease. Balzac: Eugenie Grandet IV.
Money has no smell. Vespasian:is Suetonius’s THE DEIFIED VESPASIAN XXIII.
Wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. Ecclesiastes 10:19.
There is no pocket in a shroud. John Alexander Joyce: THERE IS NO POCKET IN A SHROUD.
(with acknowledgment to Bergen Evans’ DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS)
Originally published in The Paper, September–October 1973.
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Original source: SD_Times1973_09.pdf, printed page(s) 8.
