Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.
My mother missed having dinner with Lyndon Johnson because she couldn't find the right hat to wear. While my father went off to the white house to break bread with the President, my mother, who's not a things and stuff person, stayed at the hotel and tried on 10 different hats and missed dinner.