[PW] ?Galbraith quote

[Fred Shapiro]

On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Rboconoresq at aol.com wrote:

>       Was it Galbraith who said "whenever anyone says, 'it's not about the
> money,' it's about the money"?

Looking at my collection of quotation dictionaries, I find a recently 
published volume, The Yale Book of Quotations, has the following:

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

Fred Shapiro


--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fred R. Shapiro                             Editor
Associate Librarian for Collections and     YALE BOOK OF QUOTATIONS
   Access and Lecturer in Legal Research     Yale University Press
Yale Law School                             ISBN 0300107986
e-mail: fred.shapiro at yale.edu               http://quotationdictionary.com
--------------------------------------------------------------------------