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You need enough cash cows to feed your pigs.

-John Edward Anderson
  On financing. In Forbes,17 Oct.

When I thinkof what I is And what I used to was, I gin to think I've sold myself For very little cas.

-Jane Baillie ne  e Jane Baillie Welsh Carlyle
  Journal entry, 5 Nov. Collected in  James  Anthony Froude (ed) Letters and Memorials of  Jane Welsh Carlyle (1883), vol.2.

In epochs when cash payment has become the sole nexus of man to man.

-Thomas Carlyle
  Chartism, ch.6.

Cash for trash.

- Bill (William) Clinton
  On tabloid payments to his alleged mistress Gennifer Flowers. On  ABC  T V, 23  Jan.

It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation, To puff and look important and to say: 'Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you, We will therefore pay you cash to go away.' And that is called paying the Dane-geld; But we've proved it again and again, That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld You never get rid of the Dane.

- (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
  'Dane-Geld'.

   To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.

- Mary Russell Mitford
  Letter to R B Haydon, 24  Aug.