APAD:A golden key can open any door

A golden key can open any door:

'A golden key opens any door' is the opinion that sufficient money, or the promise of it, will allow the possessor of it to do anything they wish.

This notion must be as old as money itself. The first person who is known to have written it down is the English playwright John Lyly, in Euphues and his England, 1580:

Who is so ignorant that knoweth not, gold be a key for euery locke, chieflye with his Ladye.

The proverb was the basis of the 1969 British film comedy The Magic Christian, in which characters played by Peter Sellars and Ringo Starr use large amounts of money to bribe people to humiliate themselves by doing things completely out of character.

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• 哈哈，有錢能讓鬼推磨，無錢或做推磨鬼 (摘自諺語)。But per a related Harvard study -最西邊的島上- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/16/2024 postreply 06:12:56

• "money doesn't buy bliss". See below: -最西邊的島上- ♀ (216 bytes) () 03/16/2024 postreply 06:15:26

• yeah right, poors' comfort -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/16/2024 postreply 07:04:37

• once they get $75K comfort income level :-))) -最西邊的島上- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/16/2024 postreply 08:20:59

• Who's to say people care only about happiness? :-) -7grizzly- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/16/2024 postreply 09:54:14

• let alone bliss! -7grizzly- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/16/2024 postreply 10:04:00

• 有錢能使鬼推磨 -方外居士- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/16/2024 postreply 07:22:24

• Money makes the mare go. Goolge Translate 翻譯的 -康賽歐- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/17/2024 postreply 08:35:45

• Bingo! Just learnt the word 'graft' to go w/ today's APAD. -7grizzly- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/16/2024 postreply 09:49:47