money has no smell
Pecunia non olet latin

Then again, as the Chinese say, money has no smell.

"I think that nobody has the right, in the given situation, to claim that money has no smell," he added.

Money has no smell.

"Money Has No Smell: The Africanization of New York City," Chicago: University of Chicago Press (ISBN 978-0-226-77529-6).

The illusion that money has no smell vanishes when the origin is crime and violence, meaning illegal funds, and when illegal money clearly disrupts a market economy and prevents financial markets and banks from operating in an orderly fashion.

Peterecz, Zoltán, "Money Has No Smell: Anti-Semitism in Hungary and the Anglo-Saxon World, and the Launching of the International Reconstruction Loan for Hungary in 1924," Eger Journal of American Studies (Eger), 13 (2012), pp 273-90.

It smelt of oil and if it did not smell of dollars, that was because we have known since ancient times that money has no smell.

Pecunia non olet, Latin for "money does not smell"

The phrase Pecunia non olet is still used today to say that the value of money is not tainted by its origins.

The shield of the company is blazoned: Pecunia non olet - Let's make Money.

Pecunia Non Olet (1997)

Asterix unraveling of the plot is a reference to the Roman proverb Pecunia non olet ("money does not stink").

The Latin proverb "Pecunia non olet" ("Money does not smell") may have been created when he had introduced a urine tax on public toilets.

In London Fields by Martin Amis, while smelling a wad of used fifties, foil Guy Clinch observes, "Pecunia non olet was dead wrong."

The Latin saying Pecunia non olet (money doesn't smell) is attributed to Vespasian - said to have been his reply to a complaint from his son about the unpleasant nature of the tax.

Chapter 8 THE PERMIAN BASIN GANG, 1948-59 Pecunia non olet.

"Pecunia non olet" - "Money doesn't smell" - the Emperor Vespasian said in the first century AD, as he gleefully collected the proceeds of a tax on urine, used for laundering and tanning in ancient Rome.

This section of the work is the basis for the famous expression "Money has no odor" (Pecunia non olet); according to Suetonius, Vespasian's son (and the next Emperor), Titus, criticized Vespasian for levying a fee for the use of public toilets in the streets of Rome.