A proverbial saying is that “money can’t buy happiness.” “If money can’t buy happiness, then why do I have to pay for my coffee?” is a saying that has been printed on several images.
“If money can’t buy #happiness them why do I have to pay for my #coffee?” was posted on Twitter by James Potter on February 8, 2017. The saying probably originated on an image.
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James Potter
@thelinkedinman
If money can’t buy #happiness them why do I have to pay for my #coffee? :/
Today I’m up in #London helping senior execs 121 with #LinkedIn
Martin W Brown and 6 others
2:54 AM · Feb 8, 2017 from Woking, South East
Twitter
Adepaa
@AdebahAlGublan
If money can’t buy happiness, then why do I have to pay for my coffee?
4:55 PM · May 12, 2018
Twitter
Coffee Quotes
@DoILoveCoffee
#coffee
(The following text is shown on an image.—ed.)
If money can’t buy
HAPPINESS,
then why do I
have to
pay for my
COFFEE?
7:37 AM · Apr 21, 2022·Twitter for iPhone
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps. Stolen and missing, 2021-2024.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.
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