[PW] Possible Dickens Statement

[Daphne Drewello]

Fred Shapiro wrote


> On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Patricia Hatch wrote:
>
>> The most famous quote from the play is : "Money, pardon the
>> expression, is like manure.  It's not worth a thing unless it's
>> spread around, encouraging young things to grow."
>
> Do you have any sense of whether this quotation originated with "The
> Matchmaker" or "The Merchant of Yonkers" or Nestroy or Oxenford or was an
> old saying simply being repeated here?

  Doesn't specifically mention smotheringt young people in manure, but....


http://www.bartleby.com/3/1/15.html

Of Seditions and Troubles
(Essay XV)
Francis Bacon (1625)    (11)

Above all things, good policy is to be used that the treasure and moneys in 
a state be not gathered into few hands. For otherwise a state may have a 
great stock, and yet starve. And money is like muck, not good except it be 
spread.


Just to confuse matters....

http://www.fh-kehl.de/zeitung/Studienjahr_06-07/KW39.02-Geld%20ist%20wie%20Mist.htm

Mit Konfuzius´ Worten: "Geld ist wie Mist- es bringt nur Segen wenn es 
ausgestreut ist" schloss Roland Geitmann seine Ausführungen.


Daphne Drewello
Alfred Dickey Library
Jamestown, ND