[PW] "Money is like..." quote, WAS: Possible Dickens Statement

[Patricia Hatch]

Hi Fred,

To follow up:

I found the quote in both "The Matchmaker" and in "The Merchant of 
Yonkers."  Interestingly, the quote appears in Act 1 of the Merchant 
of Yonkers, immediately following the earlier quote I sent about 
"money should flow like rainwater...", but appears in Act 4 of "The 
Matchmaker", during a monologue by Dolly Levi.

I also checked "A Day Well Spent" and did not the quote there.    A 
little off-topic bit here: since I know you have an obvious affection 
for quotations, I did find a commonly quoted phrase in this play, 
which is dated 1835: "..this is jumping from the frying pan into the fire."

Patty

At 05:04 PM 6/21/2007, you wrote:
>At 04:03 PM 6/21/2007, you 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?
> >
> >Fred Shapiro
>
>Hi Fred,
>
>I don't know if the quote originated in "The Matchmaker", but I'm
>happy to check the "Merchant of Yonkers" and "A Day Well Spent" to
>see if I can find the quotation in either.  Even though we own "Einen
>jux will er sich machen", I don't read German, so I will be unable to
>check that source.
>
>Patty
>
>Patricia Hatch
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Patricia Hatch
Educational Technology & Communications Specialist
Harvard University
Center for Workplace Development/FAD Financial Systems Solutions
8 Story Street (Basement)
Cambridge, MA  02138
Phone: (617) 496-3242
email: patricia_hatch at harvard.edu