money makes money

money makes money

1572 T. WILSON Discourse upon Usury 54v Mony getteth money.

a 1654 J. SELDEN Table-Talk (1689) 57 ’Tis a vain thing to say, Money begets not Money; for that no doubt it does.

1776 A. SMITH 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 DICKENS Our Mutual Friend III. v. We have got to recollect that money makes money, as well as makes everything else.

1935 A. CHRISTIE Miss Marple’s Final Cases (1979) 60 Everything she did turned out well. Money made money.

1988 C. H. SAWYER 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.


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