[Ads-l] It isn't about the money

[Shapiro, Fred]

The Yale Book of Quotations has the following similar quotation:

When a fellow says, "It hain't the money, but th' principle of the thing," it's th' money.
Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard, Hoss Sense and Nonsense (1926)

Fred Shapiro



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Subject: It isn't about the money

At some point last year, I jotted this down from Deadline: White House
(MSNBC):

"There's an old Hollywood adage: 'When they say it's not about the money,
it's about the money.'"

1996 San Francisco Examiner (Feb. 25) 28: "But to borrow the oft-repeated
remark of New York Giants executive George Young, "When they say it isn't
about money, it's always about money."

1999 Indiana [Pa.] Gazette (Feb. 19) 13: With labor contract issues
constantly in the news, Willie, our ex-shoeshine boy, says the old line is
still true: "When someone tells you it isn't about money...it's about
money."

JL

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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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