money can't buy happiness

money can't buy happiness

Wealth and material goods will not bring long-term happiness. The high rate of depression among lottery winners proves that money can't buy happiness.
See also: buy, happiness, money
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • feel a glow of happiness
  • satisfaction
  • a heavy purse makes a light heart
  • (those) whom the gods love die young
  • whom
  • Whom the gods love die young
  • promised land, the
  • the promised land
  • be (like) a bird in a gilded cage
  • gild
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