MONEY! Money! money... bla... bla... bla... (Part 2)

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I'd like to continue publishing the most famous phrases about money.

• A fool and his money are soon parted. A Defense of Government, by John Bridges (1587)
• Money isn't everything. Saturday Evening Post (June 18, 1870)
• The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. Pudd'nhead Wilson, by Mark Twain (1894)
• Money makes the world go around. Money, Money, by Fred Ebb (1966)
• For I don't care too much for money,
  For money can't buy me love.  Can't Buy Me Love, by John Lennon and Paul McCartney (1964)

There is a nice story of the origin of the phrase: "It's not worth a plugged nickel". You know, we use it when something is of no value. Since the old practice of making holes in coins to remove some of the valuable metal (usually silver or gold) was said to make such coins worthless or of less value than when originally minted. So, a five cent nickel was intended to illustrate and emphasize the worthlessness of a thing.

Actually, there are great number of phrases using the word "money" or something relative to it that we use in our speech. And I think it's rather curious to know about the origins of some of them.