How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand
Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.
Money nowadays is money; money brings office; money gains friends; everywhere the poor man is down. [Lat., In pretio pretium nunc est; dat census honores, Census amicitias; pauper ubique jacet.]
It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.
The earth yields up her stores, of every ill The instigators; iron, foe to man, And gold, than iron deadlier.