Date:  Tue, 26 Aug 1997 23:16:16 +0900
From:  Akihisa Shibuya <db6a-sby[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ASAHI-NET.OR.JP>
Subject: Re: Money Talks (movie title)

At 10:20 PM 97.8.24 -0400, Barry A. Popik wrote:
>  MONEY TALKS is the title of a new movie starring Charlie Sheen and Chris
>Tucker. The full phrase is often "Money talks--bullshit walks."
>  Does anyone have a "money talks"? I couldn't find it in Bartlett, nor in
>American Heritage. It was in, ah, Robert Hendrickson's ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WORD
>AND PHRASE ORIGINS:
>
>MONEY TALKS. Now a folk saying rather than slang, _money talks_ means that
>wealth is power, or money buys anything. Though it is probably older, no one
>has been able to trace the phrase back before 1910. J. D. Salinger used it
>in _Catcher in the Rye_ (1950): "In New York, boy, money really talks--I'm
>not kidding."


The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs (1992) has "Money talks."
with the first citation in 1666.

Akihisa Shibuya
Kawasaki, Japan