money makes a man

money makes a man
Cf. L. divitiae virum faciunt, wealth makes the man.

a 1500 in R. L. Greene Early English Carols (1935) 263 Yt ys allwayes sene now-adayes That money makythe the man.

a 1661 T. FULLER Worthies (Hants.) 3 We commonly say..In the Change [Exchange], Money makes a man, which puts him in a solvable condition.

1828 BULWER-LYTTON Pelham I. xxxiv. The continent only does for us English people to see... Here, you know, ‘money makes the man.’

1920 D. H. LAWRENCE Letter 7 May (1962) I. 629 Money maketh a man; even if he was a monkey to start with.

1950 C. E. VULLIAMY Henry Plumdew 203 I doubt whether he understands the place of money in vulgar estimation... Money maketh man.


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