Italy Revisited by Mary Melfi

Folk Sayings on Money
Around the world - Pre 1969 or Italy, Click here

English speaking countries

Date: Centuries-old

Notes: Folk Sayings, Famous Quotes or Proverbs on Money

A

o Abundance of things engenders disdainfulness.
o Adversity makes me; prosperity makes monsters.
o Advice is cheap.
o All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
o Another day, another dollar.
o Anything will fit a naked man.
o Avoid dishonest gain -- no price can recompense the pangs of vice.

B

o Bad gains are true losses.
o A bad penny always turns up.
o A banker is someone who lends you an umbrella when the sun is shining, and who asks for it back when it starts to rain.
o A bargain is a bargain.
o A bargain is something you don't need at a price you can't resist.
o Be just before you are generous.
o Beggars' bags are bottomless.
o Beggars can never be bankrupt.
o Beggars can't be choosers.
o The best things in life are free.
o Better a dollar earned than ten inherited.
o Better be born lucky than rich.
o Better be sparing at first than at last.
o Better go to bed without supper than rise in debt.
o Better to be a man of character than a man of means.
o Better to be safe than sorry.
o Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.
o A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
o Born with a silver spoon in his/her mouth (Meaning: Born in a rich family).
o A buckle is a great addition to an old shoe.
o Business before pleasure.
o Business is business (Meaning: Forget morals, business is business).
o Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.
o Buy the best and you only cry once.
o Buyer beware.
o The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller but one.

C

o Can't get blood from a stone.
o Clothes don't make the man.
o Clothes make the man.
o Cheapest is the dearest.
o Children are poor men's riches.
o Civility costs nothing and buys everything.
o Creditors have better memories than debtors.
o The cobbler's children go barefoot.
o Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
o Crime does not pay.
o The customer is always right.
o Cut your coat according to your cloth.

D

o Dally not with other folk's spouses or money.
o Death is the poor man's best physician.
o Death pays all debts.
o Debt is the worst poverty.
o The devil dances in empty pockets.
o Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
o Divide and rule.
o Don't bite the hand that feeds you.
o Don't count your chickens before they're hatched.
o Don't kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
o Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
o Don't robe Peter to pay Paul.

E

o The early bird catches the worm.
o Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
o Easy come, easy go.
o Easier said than done.
o An empty purse frightens away friends.
o The English are a nation of shopkeepers.
o Every man has his price.

F

o A fair exchange is no robbery.
o Feel for others, in your pocket.
o Finders keepers, losers weepers.
o First come, first served.
o A fool and his money are soon parted.
o The forest is the poor man's overcoat.
o Forgetting a debt doesn't mean it's paid.

G

o God help the rich man, let the poor man beg!
o God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves.
o God helps them that help themselves. Or, God helps those that help themselves.
o Gold is the dust that blinds all eyes.
o A good name is better than riches.
o A good servant makes a good master.
o A good spouse and health is a person's best wealth.
o Gratefulness is the poor man's payment.
o A great fortune is a great slavery.
o Great spenders are bad lenders.
o Greed often overreaches itself.

H

o Half a loaf is better than none.
o Half the world knows not how the other half lives.
o A hut is a palace to the poor man.
o Have not, want not.o He is the best general who makes the fewest mistakes.
o He is not poor that has little, but he that desires much.
o He that goes aborrowing, goes asorrowing.
o He that has a full purse never wanted a friend.
o He that has no money needs no purse.
o He that is master of himself, will soon be master of others.
o He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent. [Old Testament]
o He that marries for money will earn it.
o He that never fails will never grow rich.
o He that pays the piper, calls the tune.
o He that plants a tree plants for posterity.
o He that serves God for money will serve the devil for better wages.
o He that serves everybody is paid by nobody.
o He that steals an egg will steal an ox.
o He that waits on fortune is never sure of a dinner.
o He who likes borrowing dislikes paying.
o Health is better than wealth.
o A heavy purse makes a light heart.
o His money burns a hole in his pocket.

I

o Idle hands are the devil's playthings.
o If you are in debt, somebody owns a part of you.
o If you buy cheaply, you pay dearly.
o If you buy what you don't need you might have to sell what you do.
o If you dance you must pay the fiddler.
o If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
o If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
o Industry pays debts, despair increases them.
o In for a penny, in for a pound.
o In times of prosperity friends will be plenty, in times of adversity not one in twenty.
o It's easy to be generous with another man's money.
o It's hard but glorious to be poor and honest.
o It is more difficult to maintain honor than to become prosperous.
o It is sweet to drink but bitter to pay for.
o It's the early bird that gets the worm.
o It takes pennies to make dollars.

J

o Jack of all trades, master of none.

K

o Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee.
o Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs.

L

o Lack of resource has hanged many a person.
o Learning is better than house and land.
o Lend your money and lose your friend.
o Less is more.
o A light purse is a heavy heart.
o A light purse makes a heavy heart.
o Living high on the hog (Meaning: Living high or Living beyond one's means).
o Living from hand to mouth (Meaning: Having very little money).
o A loaded wagon makes no noise (Meaning: People with real money don't talk about it).
o Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves.

M

o Make hay while the sun shines.
o A man cannot grow rich without his wife's leave.
o Many hands make light work.
o A misery father makes a prodigal son.
o Money begets money.
o Money cannot buy happiness.
o Money can't buy everything, but everything needs money.
o Money doesn't grow on trees.
o Money goes where money is.
o Money has no smell.
o Money is a good servant but a bad master.
o Money is money (wherever it comes from).
o Money is sweet but the bee stings.
o Money isn't everything.
o Money is the root of all evil.
o Money makes the world go around.
o Money is never out of season.
o Money often unmakes the men who make it.
o Money spent on the brain is never spent in vain.
o Money talks.
o A moneyless man goes fast through the market.
o More than enough is too much.
o The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.
o Muck and money go together.

N

o Necessity is the mother of invention.
o Necessity never made a good bargain.
o Neither a borrower nor a lender be.
o Never bet your money on another man's game.
o Never look a gift horse in the mouth (Meaning: Never criticize a gift).
o Never marry for money. You can borrow it cheaper.
o Never spend your money before you have it.
o Neg legacy is as rich as honesty.
o No bees, no honey; no work, no money.
o No money, no justice.
o No man can serve two masters.
o No man can lose what he never had.
o No pain, no gain.
o Nothing is certain but death and taxes.
o Nothing succeeds like success.
o Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

O

o One man's junk is another man's treasure.
o One man's loss is another man's gain.
o Opportunity seldom knocks twice.
o Out of debt, out of danger.

P

o Patience, time and money accommodate all things.
o Pay what you owe and what you're worth you'll know.
o A penny for your thoughts.
o A penny saved is a penny earned (Meaning: Be careful with your money and you'll be able to save it little by little).
o Penny wise, pound foolish.
o Poor men seek meat for their stomach, rich men stomach for their meat.
o A pound of care will not pay a pound of debt.
o Poverty breeds discontent.
o Poverty is no disgrace but decidedly inconvenient.
o Poverty is no sin.
o Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is.
o Poverty waits at the gates of idleness.
o Put a beggar on horseback and he'll ride it to death.
o Put a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the devil.
o Put your trust in money but your money in trust.

R

o The rich get richer and the poor get children.
o Robbing Peter to pay Paul.
o Rolling in money (Meaning: being rich).

S

o Save for a rainy day.
o Scatter with one hand, gather with two.
o Scratch my back and I'll scratch yours (Meaning: Help me out, and then I'll help you.).
o The second million is always easier than the first.
o Servants like ornaments should be used int heir proper places.
o Servants make the worst masters.
o The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.
o Short debts make long friends.
o Sleep cats catch no mice.
o Something is better than nothing.
o Strike while the iron is hot (Meaning: When an opportunity presents itself, take it.).

T

o Take care of your pennies and your dollars will take care of themselves. Originally, Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves.
o They that dance must pay the fiddler.
o "There are three faithful friends: an old wife, an old dog and ready money." [Benjamin Franklin]
o A thief passes for a gentleman when stealing has made him rich.
o Time is money.
o There is always someone worse off than you.
o There is honor among thieves.
o There's money in muck.
o There is no honor among thieves.
o There is no one so rich that the does not want more.
o There is no such thing as a free lunch.
o There is one law for the rich, and another for the poor.
o They that dance must pay the fiddler.
o To buy a pig in a poke (Meaning: To pay for something you haven't seen or you know nothing about.)
o To live the life of Riley.
o To live in clover.

W

o A wager is a fool's argument.
o Waste not, want not.
o We'll just have to make do.
o What's yours, is yours.
o What the boss says goes.
o When the cat's away, the mice will play (Meaning: Often said of workers who stop working when the boss isn't around.).
o Where there's muck, there's bass.
o Who breaks, pays.
o Willful waste makes woeful want.

Y

o You are what you own.
o You can't get blood from a stone.
o You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
o You can't take it with you (when you die).
o You win some, you lose some.

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Spanish speaking countries

Date: Centuries-old

Notes: Spanish Proverbs or Folk Sayings on Money Matters

A

o in English translation: Although the monkey dresses in silk, she is still a monkey.
- English equivalent: You can't make a silk purse out of a sows' ears.

B

o Between brothers, two witnesses and a notary.

o in English translation: A bird in the hand is better than a hundred flying birds.
- Meaning: A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
- Spanish original: Mas vale pajaro en mano que cien volando.

C

o in English translation: Cheap things turn out to be expensive.
- Meaning: It is better to buy something of high quality, than continually repair something of low quality.
- Spanish original: Lo barato sale caro.

D

o Don't offer me advice, give me money.

o in English translation: Don't sell the bear's fur before you hunt it.
- Meaning: Don't count your chickens before they hatch.
- Spanish original: No vendas la piel del oso antes de cazarlo.

E

o Everything moves with money, even the dog's will dance.
- Spanish original: Con dinero baila el perro.

H

o A handsome man is not quite poor.

o He that is rich will not be called a fool.

o He who is contented is not always rich.

o in English translation: He who rises early gathers clear water.
- Equivalent: Early bird gets the worm.
- Spanish original: El que madruga coge agua clara.

I

o It's not the gay coat that makes the gentleman.

o If you pay not a servant his wages then he will pay himself.

o in English translation: In a blacksmith's house all knives are wooden.
- Meaning: Someone doesn't know how to apply their knowledge to their own life.
- Equivalent: The cobbler's wife/children goes unshod.
Spanish original: Casa de herrero, cuchillo de palo.

o It is better to be born a beggar than a fool.

L

o in English translation: Lazy people work twice.
- Meaning: If you don't do the work right the first time, you'll work twice as hard later.
- Spanish original: El perezoso trabaja doble.

N

o Never offer your hen for sale on a rainy day.

o in English translation: Not everything that glimmers is gold.
- Spanish original: No es oro todo lo que reluce.

P

o Poverty is not perversity.

R

o in English translation: A rough river is a profit for the fishers'.
- Spanish original: Rio revuelto, ganancia de pescadores.

T

o in English translation: The time wasted the saints cry for.
- Meaning: Time is money.
- Spanish original: El tiempo perdido los santos lo lloran.

W

o What belongs to everybody belongs to nobody.

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German speaking countries

Date: Centuries-old

Notes: German Proverbs or Folk Sayings on Money Matters

A

o in English translation: Aristocracy obligates.
- German original: Adel verpflichtet.

o The ass loaded with gold still eats thistles.

B

o A bad penny always comes back.
o A bargain is a bargain.

o in English translation: Better one-eyed than blind.
- Equivalent: Better something than nothing.
- German original: Besser einaugig als blind.

o in English translation: Better your own bread than another's roast.
- Meaning: What's yours, is yours.
- German original: Besser eigenes brot als fremder braten.

o in English translation: Clothes make the man.
- German original: Kleider machen leute.

D

o in English translation: The devil always shits on the biggest pile.
- Meaning: Where money already is, more money goes.
- German original: Der teufel scheibt immer auf den grobten haufen.

o in English translation (literally): Don't bet on only one card.
- Equivalent: Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
- German original: Setz nicht alles auf eine karte.

o in English translation (literally) Don't worry about eggs that haven't been laid.
- Equivalent: Don't count your eggs before they hatch.
- German original: Sich nicht um ungelegte eir kummern.

F

o in English translation: Fraud is a shopkeepers field and plow.
- Meaning: Shopkeepers deal in fraud.
- German original: Betrug ist der kramer acker und pflug.

G

o A good trade will carry farther than a thousand florins.

H
o in English translation: The healthy does not know how rich he is.
- German original: Der gesunde weib nicht, wie reich er ist.

o A hundred years of regret pay not a farthing of debt.

I

o If the servant grows rich and the master poor they are both no good.

o in English translation: If in need, the devil eats flies.
- Equivalent: Beggars can't be choosers.
- German original: In der not frisst der teufel fliegen.

o in English translation (literally): If the horseman is bad, it's the horse's fault.
- English equivalent: A poor craftsman blames his tools.
- German original: Wenn der reiter nichts taught, ist das pferd schuld.

o in English translation (literally): If there wasn't the little word "if," my father would be a millionaire.
- German original: Wenn das wortchen wenn nicht war, war mein vater millionar.

L

o in English translation (literally): The last shirt has no pockets.
- Meaning: Piling up money won't serve you anything once you're dead.
- Equivalent: You can't take it with you.
- German original: Das letzte hemd hat keine taschen.

N

o in English translation (literally) Not all that glitters is gold.
- German original: Es ist nicht alles gold, was glanzt.

O

o in English translation: One cow moos, many cows make work.
- German original: Eine kuh macht much, viele kuhe machen muhe.

o in ENGLISH translation: One shouldn't sell the bear's fur before it has been killed.
- Equivalent: Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.
- German original: Man soll das fell des baren nict verkaufen, bevor man ihn erlegt hat.

S

o Set a beggar on horseback and he'll out ride the Devil.

o in English translation: A sparrow in the hand is better than a pigeon on the roof.
- Equivalent: A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
- German original: Besser ein spatz in der hand, als eine taube auf dem dach.

T

o in English translation: Time is money.
- German translation: Zeit ist geld.

o in English translation: To buy a cat in a bag.
- Meaning: To pay for something you haven't seen or you know nothing about.
- German original: Die katze im sack kaufen.

o in English translation: To live like God in France.
English equivalent: To live in clover.
- German original: Leben wie gott in frankreich.

o in English translation (literally): Travel illegally, save money.
- Meaning: The one who doesn't pay for a ticket is the one who saves money.
- German original: Schwarz fahren, geld sparen.

W

o in English translation (literally): Who wants not, has already.
- Meaning: He who does not want something already has enough.
- German original: Wer nicht will, der hat schon.

o in English translation: Work ennobles.
- German original: Arbeit adelt.

Y

o in English translation: you aren't worth the taler if you don't honor the pfennig.
- German original: Wer den pfennig nicht ehrt, ist des talers nicht wert.

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French speaking countries

Date: Centuries-old

Notes: French Proverbs or Folk Sayings on Money Matters

A

o in English translation (literally) Advisors aren't the ones who pay.
- Equivalent: Advice is cheap.
- French original: Les conseillers ne sont pas les payeurs.

B

o Bear wealth, poverty will bear itself.

o Better buy than borrow.

o in English translation (literally): Better to hold than to run.
- Equivalent: A bird in hand is worth two in a bush.
- French original: Mieux vaut tenir que courir.

o in English translation: Business is business.
- French original: Les affaires sont les affaires.

C

o in English translation: A carpenter is known by his chips.
- French original: A l'oeuvre, on connait l'ouvrier.

o in English translation (literally): The cobblers have the worst shoes.
- Equivalent: The cobbler's children go barefoot.
- French original: Les cordonniers sont les plus mal chausses.

D

o in English translation: Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
- French original: Il ne faut pas mettre tous ses oeufs dans le meme panier.

o in English translation (literally) Don't sell the bearskin before you've killed the bear.
- English equivalent: Don't count your chickens before they've hatched.
- French original: Il ne faut pas vendre la peau de l'ours avant de l'avoir tue.

o in English translation (literally): Don't undress Peter to dress Paul.
- Meaning: Don't rob Peter to pay Paul.
- French original: Il ne faut pas deshabiller Pierre pour habiller Paul.

E

o Economy is the wealth of the poor and the wisdom of the rich.

G

o in English translation: Good accounts make good friends.
- French original: Les bons comptes font les bons amis.

o in English translation: Good tools make good workers.
- French original: Les bons outils font les bons ouvriers.

o in English translation (literally): The grass is always greener at the neighbours'.
- Equivalent: The grass is always greener on the other side.
- French original: l'herbe est toujours plus verte chez le voisin.

H

o in English translation (literally): The grass is always greener at the neighbours'.
- Equivalent: The grass is always greener on the other side.
- French original: l'herbe est toujours plus verte chez le voisin.

o in English translation: Happiness worth more than riches.
- French original: Contentement passe richesse.

o He that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.

L

o in English translation: Love does much, but money does all.
- French original: L'amour fait beaucoup, mais l'argent fait tout.

M

o in English translation (literally): Money doesn't make happiness.
- Equivalent: Money can't buy happiness.
- French original: L'argent ne fait pas le bonheur.

o in English translation: The money hammer opens the iron door.
- French original: Marteau d'argent ouvre porte de fer.

o in English translation (literally): Money is not found under a horse's hoof/step.
- Equivalent: Money doesn't grow on trees.
- French original: L'argent ne se trouve pas sous le sabot/ le pas d'un cheval.

o in English translation: Money is round so it can roll.
- French original: L'argent est rond pour rouler.

o in English translation: Money is the nerve of war.
- French original: L'argent est le nerf de la guerre.

N

o in English translation (literally): Need makes law.
- Equivalent: Beggars can't be choosers.
- French original: Necessite fait loi.

O

o One beggar at the door is enough.

o in English translation (literally) One lends only to the rich.
- Equivalent: Only the rich get richer.
- French original: On ne prete qu'aux riches.

P

o The poor lack much but the greedy more.

o in English translation: The purse opens the mouth.
- French original: La bourse ouvre la bouche.

R

o Riches run after the rich, and poverty runs after the poor.

S

o The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

T

o in English translation: There are more purchasers than those in the know.
- French original: Il y a plus d'acheteurs que de connaisseurs.

o in English translation (literally): There is no inane craft.
- Meaning: Every trade has its value.
- French original: Il n'ya pas de sot metier.

o in English translation (literally): There is no small profit.
- English equivalent: A penny saved is a penny earned.
- French original: Il n'y a pas de petit profit.

o A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

o in English translation: Time is money.
- French original: Le temps c'est de l'argent.

W

o in English translation: Who does not have money in the purse must have honey in the mouth.
- French original: Qui n'a point argent en bourse ait miel en bouche.

o in English translation (literally): The world belongs to those who rise early.
- Equivalent: The early bird catches the worm.
- French original: Le monde appartient a ceux qui se levent tot.

o Wrinkled purses make wrinkled faces.

Y

o in English translation (literally): You can't have both the butter and the money from the butter/ and the dairywoman.
- Equivalent: You can't have your cake and eat it too.
- French original: On ne peut avoir le beurre et l'argent du beurre. Sometimes On ne peut pas avoir le beurre, l'argent du beurre et la cremiere.

o in English translation: You can't have the bacon and the pig.
- French original: On ne peut avoir le lard et le cochon.

o in English translation (literally): You can't turn a buzzard into a sparrow hawk.
- Equivalent: You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
- French original: On ne peux faire d'une buse un epervier.

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Around the World

Date: Centuries-old

Notes: The following list was taken from the book, "Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages" classified by subject, arranged alphabetically, compiled by Robert Christy (New York: Putnam's Sons, 1887).

GOLD
1. A gold ring does not cure a felon.

2. A golden bit makes none the better horse.
Ital., Ger.

3. A golden dart kills where it pleases.

4. A golden gallows is still but a gallows. Ger,

5. A golden hammer breaks an iron gate.

6. A golden key opens every door save that of
heaven. Dan,

7. A golden shield is of great defence.

8. A great load of gold is more burthensome
than a light load of gravel.

9. A hare may draw a lion with a golden cord.

10. A man may buy even gold too dear.

11. All is not gold that glitters.

12. As the touchstone trieth gold, so gold trieth
men.

13. Before gold even kings take off their hats. Ger.

14. Better gain in mud than lose in gold.

Ital., Par.

15. Better whole than patched with gold. Dan.

16. Even gold may be bought too dear. Ger.

17. Even with gold one cannot buy everything.
Ger.

18. Gold and goods may be lost, a good name
endures forever. Ger.

19. Gold and silver do not make men better. Ger.

20. Gold begets in brethren hate,
Gold in families debate,
Gold does friendship separate.

Gold does civil wars create. Cawiey.

21. Gold goes in any gate except honor's.

22. Gold goes through all doors except heaven's
doors. Ger.

23. Gold goes to the Moor; a want without
conscience. For.

24. Gold glitters most when virtue shines no
more. Young.

25. Gold is a good doctor.

26. Gold is an unseen tyrant.

27. Gold is the balm to a wounded spirit.

28. Gold is proved with fire, friendship in need.
Dan.

29. Gold is the best mediator. Ger.

30. Gold is the devil's fishhook.

31. Gold is the right nail one must strike. Ger.

32. Gold is the snare of the soul. Ger.

33. Gold has deep in the mountain, dirt on the
highway. Ger.

34. Gold remains gold though it lay in the mud. Ger.

35. Gold rules the court, the camp, the grove,
And married men and men in love.

36. Gold rules the world.

37. Gold when present causeth fear, when absent
grief.

38. Golden dreams make men awake hungry.

39. Golden roofs break men's rest. Seneca.

40. He who expends gold properly is its master,
who lays it up its keeper, who loves it a fool, who
adores it an idolater ; the truly wise man is he who
despises it. Petrarch.

41. He who has gold has fear, who has none has
sorrow.

42. He who would make a golden door (or gate)
must add a nail to it daily. Fr., Dutch.
43. If the walls were adamant, gold would take
the town.

44. I will not have any gold, but I love to reign
over those who have. Old Roman.

45. It is not all gold that glitters.

46. Man must govern not serve gold. Ger.

47. That is gold which is worth gold. Fr,, Ital., Sp., For.

48. That is all well and good, but gold is better. Dan.

49. The purest gold is the most ductile.

50. The true art of making gold is to have a good
estate and spend little of it.

51. There is no better friend in misfortune than
gold. Ger.

52. There is no lock if the pick is of gold.

53. There is no lock one cannot open with a
golden key. Ger.

54. Try your skill in gilt first and then in gold.

55. When gold speaks every tongue is silent.
Ital., Ger.

56. When gold speaks you may hold your tongue.

57. When we have gold we are in fear, when we
have none we are in danger.

58. Where gold avails, argument fails.

59. Where gold chinks, arguments are of no
avail. Ger.

60. Where my gold there my heart.

61. Where there is gold, there the devil dwells. Ger.

62. Who has gold has ease. Ger.

63. Who has gold is a welcome guest.

64. You may speak with your gold and make
other tongues dumb.

MONEY
1. A man who is proud of his money has rarely
anything else to be proud of.

2. A man without money is like a bird without
wings; if he soars he falls to the ground and dies.

3. A man without money is a bow without an
Arrow.

4. A man without money is like a ship without
Sails. Dutch,

5. A moneyless man goes fast through the market.

6. A string of cash can but reach to one's heels;
the sum is not worth contending about. Chinese,

7 A thousand pounds and a bottle of hay,
Are just the same at doomsday.

8. All powerful money gives birth and beauty.
Horace,

9. As water runs toward the shore, so does
money toward the rich man's hand. Dan,

10. Bad money always comes back. Ger,

11. Between smith and smith no money passes.
Sp,, For,

12. But few prize honor more than money.

13. But help me to money and Til help myself to
friends.

14. Discover not your silent (hoarded) money to
anybody. Sp.

15. Do not lend your money to a great man. Fr,

16. Fair money can cover much that's foul.

17. Get money, get money still,

And then let virtue follow if she will. Pope.

18. Give me money, not advice. Por.

19. God makes and apparel shapes, but it is
money that finishes the man.

20. God send me some money, for they are little
thought of that want it. Scotch.

21. Godsend you more wit and me more money.

22. Good manners and plenty of money will make
my son a gentleman. Por.

23. Hate, religion, ambition, all have their hypocrisies, but money applies the thumb-screw to them all. Dr. Crowley.

24. He that has no money in his purse should
have fair words on his lips. Dan.

25. He that hath it and will not keep it,
He that wants it and will not seek it.
He that drinks and still is dry,
Shall want money as well as I.

26. He that hath no money in his pot, let him
have it in his mouth.

27. He that hoardeth up money taketh pains
for other men.

28. He that is known to have no money has
neither friends nor credit.

29. He that is without money might as well be
buried in a rice tub with his mouth sewed up. Chinese.

30. He that shows his money shows his judgment.

31. He that wants money is accounted among
those who want wit.

32. He who has both money and bread
May choose with whom his daughter to wed. Sp.

33. He who throws away money with his hands,
will seek it with his feet. Ital.

34. If a man's money be white no matter if his
face be black. Turk.

35. If money be not thy servant it will be thy
master.

36. If thou knowest how to use money, it will be-
come thy handmaid; if not it will become thy master.

37. If thou wouldst keep money, save money.
If thou wouldst reap money, save money.

39. If you had as little money as manners you'd
be the poorest of all your kin.

40. If you have money you are wise, if not you
are a fool. Turk.

41. If you have no money turn placeman, as the
court fool said to the prince. Ger.

42. If you make money your god, 'twiu plague
you like a devil. Fielding,

43. If you have money take a seat.

If you have none take to your feet. Ger,

44. It is a rare miracle for money to lack a master.

45. It is not the praise of the man but of the
money-chest to keep money from diminution.
Remark of Themistocles censuring Aristides.

46. Mention money and the world is silent. Ger.

47. Money amassed either serves or rules us.

48. Money answereth all things. Bible.

49 Money as well as need makes the old wife
trot.

50. Money begets money. Sp,

51. Money borrowed is soon sorrowed.

52. Money burns many. Fr.

53. Money can neither open up new avenues to
pleasure, nor block up the passages of anguish.
Rambler.

54. Money clothes the naked, feeds the hungry,
and buys a crutch for the cripple.

55. Money does all. Fr.

56. Money does not get hanged. Ger.

57. Money in purse will be always in fashion.

58. Money in purse dispels melancholy. Ger.

59. Money in whatever hands will confer power.
Dr. Johnson.

60. Money is a good servant but a bad master.
Fr.

61. Money is a good soldier and will on. Shaks.

62. Money is a source of trouble and woe.

63. Money is a sword that can cut ever in the Gordian knot.

64. Money is an universal language speaking any
tongue.

65. Money is an epitome of human power. Ital.

66. Money is both blood and life to men. Latin.

67. Money is first to be sought, virtue afterwards.
Latin.

68. Money is like manure : of very little use unless
it be spread. Bacon.

69. Money is lost only for the want of money.

70. Money is money *s brother. Ital.

71. Money is more eloquent than a dozen members of parliament. Dan.

72. Money is needed both by monk and dervish. Turk.

73. Money is not gained by losing time. Por.

74. Money is power. Dutch.

75. Money is round and rolls. Ital.

76. Money is that art that hath turned up trumps.

77. Money is the best bait to fish for man with.

78. Money is the fruit of evil as often as the root
of it. Fielding.

79. Money is the god of the world.

80. Money is the measure of all things. Par.

81. Money is the one thing needful.

82. Money is the only monarch.

83. Money is the only power that all mankind bow
down before. Butler.

84. Money is the root of all evil. New Testament.

85. Money is the sinew of love as well as of war.

86. Money is the sinew of war. Dutch.

87. Money is the sinew of business. Plutarch.

88. Money is the soul of business. Ger.

89. Money is the very blood and life of mortals.

90. Money is welcome though it come in a dirty
Clout.

91. Money is wise: it knows it's own way.

92. Money lent, an enemy made. For.

93. Money like manure does no good till it is
spread.

94. Money makes a man free.

95. Money makes dogs dance. Fr.

96. Money makes marriage.

97. Money makes not so many true friends as real
enemies.

98. Money makes the gentleman, the want of it
the blackguard.

99. Money makes the mare to go.

100. Money rules the world. Dutch.

101. Money saved is money got {or as good as
money gained). Dan,

102. Money soothes more than the words of a cavalier. Sp., For.

103. Money is the life-blood of the nation.

104. Money taken, freedom forsaken. Ger.

105. Money, the pick-lock that never fails.
Massinger,

106. Money thou need'st:
'Twill keep thee honest; want made thee a
knave.

107. Money turns bad into good. Sp.

108. Money we want and cannot borrow.
Yet drink we must to slacken sorrow.

109. Money which is gained by fraud, by fraud
must be lost. Turk.

110. Money will do more than my lord's letter.

111. Money will make money.

112. Money will make the pot boil though the
devil pour water on the fire.

113. Money wins the battle, not the long arm. Por,

114. Much money, many friends. Ger.

115. My money is little, my heart without strife.
Turk.

116. My money, your money, let us go to the tavern. Por.

117. One handful of money is stronger than two
handfuls of truth.

118. One never gets more than the money's worth
of anything. Pr,

119. Nothing stings us so bitterly as loss of money.

120. Procure empire by money, not money by empire. Philip, father of Alexander the Great,

121. Property purchased with borrowed money,
and money obtained by treachery shall soon pass away.

122. Public money is like holy water: everyone
helps himself to it. Ital.

123. Put not your trust in money but your money
in trust.

124. Rather a man without money, than money
without a man. Themistocles,

125. Ready money can put anything in stock.
Chinese.

126. Ready money brings a remedy. Fr.

127. Ready money is ready medicine.

128. Ready money will away.

129. Samson was a strong man, yet could not pay
money before he had it.

130. Tell money after your own father.

131. The abundance of money ruins youth.

132. The art is not in making money but in keeping it.

133. The chief end of man is not to get money.

134. The money paid, the work delayed.
Don Quixote,

135. The money paid, the workman's arm is broken.
Fr.

136. The money you refuse will never do you good.

137. The sign invites you but your money must
get you out.

138. The skilfulest without money is scorned.

139. The smell of money is good, come whence it
may. Juvenal.

140. The thirst for money brings all the sins into
the world. Ger.

141. The use of money is all the advantage there
is in having money. Franklin,

142. The want of money is the root of much evil.
London Truth.

143. There is abundance of money spent to be
laughed at.

144. There is more money got by ill means than by
good acts.

145. There is no lustre in money unless it derives
its lustre from moderate enjoyment.

146. Those who believe money can do everything
are frequently prepared to do everything for money.

147. Those who make money make little exertion,
those who make much exertion make no money. Chinese.

148. Though you have money do not spend it in
the twelfth night. Chinese.

149. Tis money that begets money.

150. To disregard money on suitable occasions is
often a great profit. Terence.

151. Touch not another man's money, for the most
honest never added to it. Fr.

152. Trust not your money to one whose eyes are
bent on the ground.

153. Want of love or want of money lies at the
bottom of all our griefs. Bea.

154. When honor grew mercenary, money grew
honorable.

155. When I had money in my purse, I had food
in my mouth. Dan.

156. When land and money's spent.
Then money is most excellent.

157. When money speaks, truth keeps silent.
Russian.

158. Where there is money there is no courage. Ger.

159. Where there's money there's the devil,
But where there's none a greater evil. Ger.

160. Where there's muck, there's money.

i6i. With Latin, a lioree, and money, thou wilt
pass through the work. Sp.

162. With money you would not know yourself
without money nobody would know you. Sp.

163. With us wretched mortals money is life.
Hesiod.

164. Without money all is in vain. Latin.

165. Without money, without fear. Ger.

166. Would you know the value of money go borrow some.

167. You will see more ruined than saved by
money ill gotten. Sophocles.

Poor.
1. A fallen rich man may make a good master,
but not an enriched poor man. Ital.

2. A lamb is as dear to a poor man as an ox to
the rich.

3. A north wind has no com and a poor man no
friend. Sp,

4. A poor man can gain nothing by contending
with the great.

5. A poor man has few acquaintances. Dan,

6. A poor man has no friends. Ashantees (Africa).

7. A poor man has not many marks for fortune
to shoot at.

8. A poor man is all schemes. Sp,

9. A poor man is hungry after eating. For,

10. A poor man's joy has much alloy. Van,

11. A poor man's shilling is but a penny.

12. A poor man wants something, a covetous
man all things.

13. A poor man's debt makes a great noise.

14. A ragged sack holds no grain, a poor roan is
not taken into counsel. Ital.

15. As long as there are some poorer than you,
praise God even if you are unshod. Gypsy.

16. Be considerate toward the poor.

17. For poor people, small coin.

18. Every poor man is counted a fool.

19. He is not poor that hath not much, but he
that craves much.

20. He is not poor who has a competency. Horace.

21. He is poor indeed who can promise nothing.

22. He is too poor to buy a rope to hang himself.
Ger.

23. He who devours the substance of the poor,
will find at length a bone to choke him. Fr.

24. If poor, act with caution.

25. Look on the poor with gentle eyes, for in
euch habits often angels desire alms. Massinger,

26. Much wisdom is lost in poor men's mouths.
Ger.

27. Much wisdom is smothered in a poor man's
head. Dutch.

28. Much wit is lost in a poor man's purse. Ger,

29. No one is poor but he who thinks himself so.
For.

30. No one so hard upon the poor as the pauper
who has got into power. Dan,

31. Not he who has little, but he who wishes for
more, is poor. Seneca.

32. Poor and content is rich and rich enough.
Shaks

33. Poor folks are glad of pottage.

34. Poor folks say "thank you" for a little.

35. Poor folk's wisdom goes for little.

36. Poor men do penance for rich men's sins.

37. Poor men have no souls. {So think the rich).

38. Poor men seek meat for their stomachs, rich
men stomach for their meat.

39. Poor men's money and cowards* weapons are
often flourished.

40. Poor men's tables are soon spread.

41. Poor men's words have little weight.

42. Poor people's words go many to the sackful.
Ger.

43. Poor, what he can; rich, what he will.

44. Poor without debt is better than a prince.

45. That man is not poor who has the use of
things necessary. Horace.

46. The dainties of the great are the tears of the
poor.

47. The devil wipes his tail with the poor man's
pride.

48. The impartial earth is open to the poor as
well as the sons of kings. Horace.

49. The pleasures of the mighty are the terrors of
the poor.

50. The poor advanced makes friends of enemies.
For who not needs, shall never lack a friend.
Shaks.

51. The poor ye always have with you.
New Testament.

52. The poor are rich when they are satisfied. Ger.

53. The poor do penance for die follies of their
superiors. Ital.

54. The poor can live in one house together when
two kings cannot in a kingdom. Ger,

55. The poor cannot,. the rich will not. Ger,

56. The poor live secure. Ger,

57. The poor must dance as the rich pipe.

58. The poor man's honor is worth more than the
rich man's gold. Ger,

59. The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the force of the crown. Pitt.

60. The poor man eats at double cost. Dan.

61. The poor man has his crop destroyed by hail
every year. Sp.

62. The poor is aye put to the worst. Scotch.

63. The poor pay for all.

64. The poor man's budget is full of schemes. Sp.

65. The poor man's coin always grows thin. Dan.

66. The poor man seeks for food, the rich man
for appetite. Dan.

67. The poor man's penny unjustly obtained is a
coal of fire in the rich man's purse.

68. The poor man's wisdom is as useless as a
palace in a wilderness. Gaelic.

69. The poor man turns his cake and another
comes and takes it away.

70. The poor man wants much, the miser everything.

71. The poor man must keep his word, and the
rich when it suits him. Ger.

72. The poor pour, and the rich drink, the wine.
Ger.

73. The poor rich man is emphatically poor.

74. The poor sing free throughout the world. Ger.

75. The poor sit in Paradise on the first benches,
Ger.

76. The poor trying to imitate the powerful perish. Phadrus.

77. The wise discourses of a poor man go for nothing.

78. There are many things that may not be
uttered by men in threadbare coats. Juvenal.

79. There is God's poor, and the devil's poor;
the first from Providence, the other from vice.

80. To contemn the poor because of his poverty
is to affront God's providence.

81. We give the rich, and take from the poor. Ger.

82. What the poor are to the poor none know
but themselves and God. Charles Dickens.

83. When poor, liberal; when rich, penurious. Sp,

84. When the poor become rich they sink the
village. Ger.

85. When you eat think of the poor.

86. Wherever a poor man is, there is his destiny.
M, Greek.

87. Who closes his ear to the poor, Peter will not
hear when he knocks. Ger.

88. Whoso stoppeth his ear at the cry of the poor,
shall cry himself and not be heard. Hebrew.

89. Withhold not the wages of the poor.

POOR-HOUSES
I. The poor-houses are filled with the honestest
people. sp.

PROSPERITY
1. All claim kindred with the prosperous. Latin.

2. He that considers in prosperity, will be less
afflicted in adversity.

3. In prosperity no altars smoke. Ital.

4. In prosperity think of adversity. Dutch.

5. In time of affliction a vow, in time of prosperity an inundation of wickedness.

6. It is no easy matter to bear prosperity decently.

7. Let the wretched hope and the prosperous be
on their guard. Latin,

8. Oh, how portentous is prosperity I
How, comet-like, it threatens while it shines! Young.

9. Prosperity and vanity are often lodged together.

10. Prosperity destroys fools and endangers the wise.

11. Prosperity discovers vices and adversity
virtues.

12. Prosperity engenders sloth. Livy.

13. Prosperity forgets father and mother. Sp.

14. Prosperity gains friends, and adversity tries
them. Pacuvius,

15. Prosperity gives some appearance of higher
sentiments, even to persons of mean spirit.
Plutarch.

16. Prosperity is a ray of the sun that the least
shadow can interrupt ; adversity is sometimes like
the refreshing rain of Spring. Chinese.

17. Prosperity is a stronger trial of virtue than
adversity. Rochefoucauld,

18. Prosperity is like a tender mother but blind
who spoils her children.

19. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes,
and adversity is not without comfort and hopes. South,

20. Prosperity is the nurse of anger. Latin,

21. Prosperity is the worst enemy men usually
have.

22. Prosperity lets go the bridle.

23. Prosperity is the thing in the world we ought
f to trust least.

24. Prosperity tries the human heart with the
deepest probe and brings forth the hidden character.

25. Prosperity's right hand is industry and her
left hand is frugality.

26. Prosperous men sacrifice not; they forget God.

27. Prosperous men seldom mend their faults.

28. The prosperous man cannot easily form a right
idea of misery.

29. The prosperous man does not know
whether he is loved.

30. They must be strong legs that can support
prosperous days. Ger.

31. When prosperity smiles, beware of its guiles.
Dutch.

32. When prosperity was mounted, she let go the
bridle and soon came tumbling out of the saddle.
Franklin.

RICH
1. A little house well filled, a little land well
tilled, and a little wife well willed are great riches.

2. A man that keeps riches and enjoys them not,
is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.

3. A rich child often sits in a poor mother's lap.

4. A rich man's foolish sayings pass for wise
ones. Sp.

5. A rich man is either a rogue or a rogue's heir.
Latin.

6. A rich man is never ugly in the eyes of a
girl. Fr.

7. A rich man knows not his friends. Ger.

8. A rich man without understanding is a sheep
with golden wool Ger.

9. A rich mouthful, a heavy groan.

10. All ask if a man be rich, none if he be good.
Latin.

11. All strive to give to the rich man.

12. And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.
Goldsmith.

13. At the door of the rich are many friends, at
the door of the poor none. Hebrew.

14. Before the rich man is willing to give, the
poor man dies. Turk.

15. Better rich in God than rich in gold.

16. Every one is kin to the rich man.

17. For one rich man that is content there are a
hundred who are not.

18. Give me neither poverty or riches. Bible.

19. God help the poor, for the rich can help them-
selves.

20. God help the poor, the rich help themselves. Ger.

21. God help the poor, the rich can beg.

22. God sends us some wheat of our own when the
rich men go to dinner.

23. God sends us of our own when rich men go to
dinner.

24. He alone is rich who makes a proper use of
his riches. Horace.

25. He has riches enough who need neither borrow nor flatter.

26. He is not fit for riches who is afraid to ask for
them.

27. He is not rich who is not satisfied. Ger.

28. He is rich enough who does not want. Ital.

29. He is rich enough who has true friends. Ger.

30. He is rich enough who owes nothing.
Ger, Fr,, Ital.

31. He is rich that is satisfied.

32. He is richest who is content with least, for
content is the wealth of a nation.

33. He is truly rich who desires nothing and he
is truly poor who covets all.

34. He that is poor all his kindred scorn him ; he
that is rich all are kin to him.

35. He that maketh haste to be rich, shall not be
innocent. Proverbs.

36. He that never fails never grows rich. Ital.

37. He that oppresses the poor to increase his
riches and he that giveth to the rich shall surely
come to want. Bible.

38. He who despises small things seldom grows
rich. Dan.

39. He who has good health is young and he is
rich who has no debts.

40. He who hastens to be rich incurs peril.
Chinese.

41. He who is rich can have no vice, and he that
poor no virtue. Fielding,

42. He who wants to be rich in a year comes to
the gallows in half a year. Ital. Sp.

43. I never knew a silent rich man. Fr.

44 I would rather be a hog t)i8n an ignorant
rich man.

45. If rich be not elated, if poor be not dejected,
Socrates.

46. If riches were granted even beggars would
become rich. M. Greek.

47. Is it not sheer madness to live poor to die
rich? Juvenal,

48. It is a miserable sight to see a poor man
proud and a rich man avaricious. Ital.

49. It is better to be poor and well, than rich and
ill. African.

50. It is better to be poor with honor than rich
with shame. Ger.

51. It is not without a purpose when a rich man
greets a poor man with kindness. Plautus,

52. It would make a man scratch where he doth
not itch to see a man live poor to die rich.

53. Men often seem rich to become rich. Maga.

54. Moderate riches will carry you, if you have
more you must carry them.

55. Once poor, my friend, still poor you must re-
Main. The rich alone have all the means of gain.
Martial.

56. No good man ever becomes suddenly rich.
Syrus.

57. No man is so rich as to say, "I have enough."
Latin,

58. Not possession but use is the only riches.

59. Rich for yourself, poor for your friend.

60. Rich in gold, rich in care. Ger.

61. Rich men and fortunate men have need of

much prudence.

62. Rich men are slaves condemned to the
mines.

63, Rich men feel misfortunes that pass over
poor men's heads.

64. Rich men have no faults.

65. Rich men seem happy, great and wise, all
which the good man only is.

66. Rich men's spots are covered with money.

67. Rich people are everywhere at home. Ger.

68. Riches abuse them who know not how to use
them.

69. Riches and cares are inseparable.
(Fable of the mouse and the weasel)

70. Riches and favor go before wisdom and art.
Dan.

71. Riches and virtue do not often keep each
other company.

72. Riches are always restless; it is only to poverty the gods give content. Maga.

73. Riches are as precious as life. Turk.

74. Riches are but the baggage of fortune.

75. Riches are but the baggage of virtue.

76. Riches are first to be sought for, after wealth
virtue.

77. Riches are like muck which stink in a heap
but spread abroad make the earth fruitful.

78. Riches are often abused but never refused.
Dan.

79. Riches breed care, poverty is sate. Dan.

80. Riches cause arrogance, poverty meekness.
Ger.

81. Riches come better after poverty than poverty after riches. Chinese.

82. Riches endless is as poor as winter,
To him that ever fears he shall be poor.
Shaks.

83. Riches fall not always to the lot of the most
deserving. Latin.

84. Riches have made more men covetous, than
covetousness hath made men rich.

85. Riches have their embarrassments. Fr.

86. Riches have wings.

87. Riches make men worse in their latter days.

88. Riches never come even by chance to him
whose destiny it is to be poor. Chinese.

89. Riches only adorn- the house, but virtue
adorns the person. Chinese.

90. Riches only give us meat, fire and clothes.
Pope.

91. Riches rule the roast.

92. Riches serve a wise man but command a fool.

93. Riches take peace from the soul but rarely if
ever confer it. Petrarch.

94. Riches well got and well used are a blessing.

95. Riches will bear out folly. Latin.

96. Riches without understanding, a body without
a soul. Ger.

97. That man is rich who hath a sufficiency and
desires no more.

98. The abuse of riches is worse than the want
of them.

99. The foolish sayings of the rich man pass for
laws in society. Don Quixote.

100. The rich and ignorant are sheep with golden
wool. Ital.

101. The rich are trustees under God for the
poor.

102. The rich can only eat with one mouth. Ger,

103. The rich devour the poor, and the devil de-
vours the rich and so both are devoured. Dutch.

104. The rich have many friends. Dutch.

105. The rich man does not know who is his
friend.

106. The rich man has more relations than he
knows. Fr.

107. The rich man is often poorer than the beg-
gar. Ger.

108. The rich need not beg a welcome.

109. The rich never want for kindred.

no. The rich ruleth over the poor and the borrower
is servant to the lender, Bible,

111. The richest man carries nothing away with
him but his shroud. Fr,

112. The richest man whatever his lot,
Is he who's content with what he has got,
Dutch.

113. The ways to enrich are many and most of
them foul for you. Terence.

114. The whole world is the house of the rich and
they may live in whatever apartment they please.
Fielding,

115. There are none so poor they cannot help, and
none so rich as not to need help. Ger,

116. There be as many nurseries beyond riches as
on this side them.

117. There is no one so rich that he does not still
want something. Ger.

118. There is no revenging yourself on a rich man.
Don Quixote,

119. 'Tis brave scrambling at the rich man's dole.

120. To be rich one must have a relation at home
with the devil. Ital.

121. To become rich in this world it needs only to
turn one's back on God. Ital.

122. To whom can riches give repute or trust,
Content, or pleasure, but the good and just ?
Pope,

123. We heap up riches as if we should live always. Fr,

124. What need a rich man be a thief?

125. When riches increase, the body decreaseth.

126. Who is healthy and free is rich. Ger.

127. Who will become rich must cast his soul be-
hind the money chest. Ger.

128. Who will become rich must have great care
and little conscience. Ger,

129. Who will become rich must rise at four; who
is rich may lie till seven. Ger,

130. Who would be rich in a year gets hanged in
half a year. Sp.

131. Who would be rich must keep his soul under
cover of his cash box. Ger,

SPENDING, SPENDTHRIFTS.
1. To a good spender God is treasurer.

2. He that spends more than he is worth, spins
a rope for his own neck.

3. He that spends without regard shall want
without pity.

4. Spend and be free, but make no waste.

5. Spend and God will send.

6. Spending money with many a guest
Empties the kitchen, the cellar and chest. Sp.

7. Spend not when you may save, spare not
when you must spend.

8. Spend one penny less than the dear gain* Fr,

9. Spendthrifts are always of necessity greedy
and covetous.

10. Through not spending enough we spend too
much. Sp,

11. To spend much and gain little is the sure
road to ruin. Ger.

12. Who more than he is worth doth spend.
Ever makes a rope his life to end.

13. Who spends before he thrives
Will beg before he dies.

Wealth.
1. A great estate is not gotten in a few hours. Fr.

2. A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a
great misfortune.

3. A great fortune is a great slavery.

4. A man has no more goods than he gets good
by.

5. A man of wealth is a slave to his possessions.
Tamil.

6. A man's wealth is his enemy.

7. A wealthy man errs with impunity. Latin,

8. Among men some have their virtue concealed
by wealth, and some their vices by poverty.

9. Command your wealth, else that will command you.

10. Devotion and wealth are seldom united. Ger,

11. Fathers their children and themselves abuse,
That wealth, a husband, for their daughters
choose. Fielding.

12. Great wealth and content seldom live together.

13. Great wealth, great care. Dutch.

14. Great wealth makes us neither more wise nor
more healthy.

15. I wot well how the world wags; he is most
loved who has most bags.

16. If you would be wealthy, think of saving as
well as of getting. Franklin.

17. Ill fares the land to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates and men decay.
Goldsmith.

18. Of lawful wealth the devil takes the half ; of
unlawful the whole and the owner too. Turk.

19. One man's wealth is often many men's ruin. Maga.

20. Real wealth consists not in having but in not
wanting.

21. Talent and poverty, wealth and stupidity,
usually dwell together. Latin.

22. The greatest wealth is contentment with a
little.

23. The loss of wealth is loss of dirt,
All sages in all times assert.
The happiest man's without a shirt.
John Haywood.

24. The lust of wealth can never bear delay.
Juvenal.

25. The secret of wealth lies in the letters
Save.

26. The truest wealth is that of the understanding.

27. The wealth of the mind is the only true wealth.

28. Wealth and content do not always live
together.

29. Wealth and honors can never cure a wounded
conscience.

30. Wealth breeds a pleurisy, ambition a fever,
liberty a vertigo, and poverty is a dead palsy.

31. Wealth conquered Rome after Rome had
conquered the world. Petrarch.

32. Wealth is best known by want.

33. Wealth is liberty and liberty is a blessing
fittest for a philosopher. Swift.

34. Wealth is not his who makes it but his who
enjoys it. Ital.

35. Wealth is stepmother to virtue. Ger,

36. Wealth is timid.

37. Wealth like an index reveals the character of
men. Latin,

38. Wealth like rheum falls upon the weakest
parts.

39. Wealth maketh many friends. Bible.

40. Wealth maketh worship.

41. When wealthy, show thy wisdom not to be
To wealth a servant, but make wealth serve
thee. Denham,

42. Where there is wealth friends abound.

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13. Ab inopia ad virtutem obsepta est via. (Z.) Pro v.
? Poverty obstructsthe road to virtue. It is so easy to be
good when one is well off.

64. Adde parum parvo, magnus acervus erit. (L.) Prov. ?
Add little to little, and you will have a great heap,

188. Aliena optimum frui insania. (L.) Prov. ? It is best to
profit by the madness of others.

267. Amour fait moult, ai'gent fait tout. (Fr.) Prov.
? Love can do much, money everything.

268. Amour, tous les autres plaisirs Ne valent pas tes peines. (V.) Charleval
? Love, thy pains are worth more than all other pleasures.

277. An dives sit omnes quserunt, nemo an bonus. (L.) 1
? Everyone inquires if he is well off, no one asks if he is a good
man or no.

368. Armuth schandet nicht. (G.) Prov.
? Poverty is no disgrace.

544. Borgen macht Sorgen. (G.) Prov.
? Borrowing makes borrowing.

545. Borgen thut nur einmal wohl. (G.) Prov.
? Borrowing does well for once only.

773. Communia esse amicorum inter se omnia. (L.) Prov.
Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 18. ? All things are common property
amongst friends.

982. Das Schwerste klar, und Allen fasslich sagen,
Heisst aus gediegnem Golde Munzen schlagen. (G.)
a Geibel t ? To put the most difficult matters clearly, and
everything intelligibly, is to be making coins out of pure
gold.

4020. Privilegium est quasi privata lex. (L.) Law Max. ?
Privilege is a kind of private law. An exemption framed
for individuals.

5355. Wie gewonnen, sozerronnen. (G.) Prov. ? As it is gained,
so is it spent. Light come, light go.

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Notes: The following list was taken from "Aphorisms of Wisdom: or, a Complete Collection of the Most Celebrated Proverbs in the English, Scotch, French, Spanish, Italian, and other languages: Ancient and Modern," collected by Thomas V. Fuller, M.D., (GLASGOW: (R. & D. MALCOLM, 1814).

A penny more buys the whistle.

A penny saved is twopence got.

A penny-weight of love is worth a pound of law.

A penny-worth of ease is worth a penny.

A poor man gets a poor marriage.

A poor man has not many marks for Fortune to shoot at.,

A poor man's debt makes a great noise.

A poor man wants some things, a covetous man all things.

A poor pleader may do in a plain cause.

A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse.

A purse without money is but a piece of leather.

Beggars and borrowers must be no choosers.

Beggars fear no rebellion.

Beggars can never be bankrupts.

Beggars may sing before a thief.

Beggars never are out of their way.

Begging of a courtesy is selling of liberty.

Bribes throw dust into cunning men's eyes.

Bribes will enter without knocking.

Butter is gold in the morning, silver at noon, and lead at night.

Buy and sell, and live by the loss.

Buy at a market, and sell at home.

Buyers want an hundred eyes, sellers none.

Buying and selling is but winning and losing.

By art and deceit men live half the year, and by deceit
and art the other half.

By doing nothing, we learn to do ill.

By fits and girts, as an ague takes a goose.

Every penny that is taken is not clear gains.

Give a poor man sixpence, and not a bottle of wine.

Gold and silver were mingled with dirt till avarice parted them.

Gold causeth strange disorders when it falls into a fool's hand.

Gold is no balm to a wounded spirit.

Gold, when present, causeth fear ; when absent, grief.

Golden dreams make men awake hungry.

Good bargains are pick-pockets.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

He is rich enough that needeth neither flatter nor borrow.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Misers put their back and their belly into their pocket*

Misfortunes make us wise.

Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.

Misfortunes that cannot be avoided must be sweetened.

Misfortunes when asleep are not to be awakened.

Money, as well as need makes the old wife trot.

Money cannot buy merit.

Money in purse will be always in fashion.

Money is a merry fellow.

Money is a sword that can cut even the Gordian knot.

Money is ace of trumps.

Money is the best bait to fish for man with.

Money is the god of the world.

Money is the only monarch.

Money is the sinew of love as well as of war.

Money is too inconsiderable to love, ^et too useful to
throw away.

Money, like dung, does no good till it is spread.

Money makes marriage.

Money makes not so many true friends as real enemies,

Money will do more than my lord's letter.

Money will make a baboon or a bear to ride in a coach.

Money will make the pot boil, though the devil p? in the fire.

Prospect is often better than possession.

Prosperity and vanity are often lodged together.

Prosperity often best discovers vices, and adversity virtue.

Prosperity destroys fools, and endangers the wise.

Prosperity gets followers, but adversity distinguishes them.

Prosperity has damned more souls than all the devils together.

Prosperity has every thing cheap.

Prosperity knows not the worth of patience.

Prosperity takes no counsel and fears no calamity.

Prosperous men seldom mend their faults.

Providence directs the dice

Providence is better than rent.

Providence is not purblind.

Providence seems to have forgot the man to whom it sends
but few friends.

Rich men and fortunate men have need of much prudence

Rich men feel misfortunes that fly over poor men's heads.

Rich men have no faults.

Rich men have often the hearts of poor men.

Rich men long to be richer

Rich men's spots are covered with money.

Riches abuse them who know not how to use them.

Riches alone make no men happy.

Riches are but the baggage of fortune.

Riches are got with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief.

Riches have made more covetous men, than covetousness
hath made rich men.

Riches may at any time be left, but not poverty.

Riches rule the roast.

Riches serve a wise man, but command a fool.

Riches rather enlarge than satisfy appetites.

Riches well got and well used are a great blessing.

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Notes: "A BOOK OF QUOTATIONS PROVERBS AND HOUSEHOLD WORDS, a Collection of Quotations from British and American Authors, Ancient and
Modem; with many Thousands of Proverbs, Familiar Phrases and
Sayings, from all sources, including Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Latin,
French, German, Spanish, Italian, and other Languages" by W. GURNEY BENHAM (PHILADELPHIA: J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY & London: CASSELL & Company, 1907).

A bargain is a bargain, (E.)

A beggar can never be bankrupt. (E.)

A bribe will enter without knocking. (E. )

A earless hussy makes many thieves. (E. Sc.)

A full purse makes the mouth to speak. (E.)

A light purse makes a heavy heart.

A heavy purse makes a light heart.

A little saving is no sin.

A man in debt is caught in a net.

A man's worth is the worth of his laud.

Everyone is worth as much as he has.? (Germ.)

According to what you have such is your worth.

You are worth as much as you possess.? (Span., Bon
Quixote.)

A penny saved is a penny got.

A penny spared is twice got, (G. H.)

A penny saved is twopence got.

A pennyworth of ease is worth a penny. (B.)

A pound of care won't pay an ounce of debt.
An hundred load of thought will not pay
one of debts. (G. H.)

A thing you don't want is dear at any price.

Adversity makes a. man wise, not rich. (E.)

Beautiful flowers are soon picked. ? (Germ.)

Beggars should not be chooser.

Borrowers must be no choosers. (From the French.)

He who borrows docs not choose.

The best is best cheap. (R.)

The best is the cheapest in the end.

Better a bare foot than none. (G. H.)

Better a penny with right than a thousand without.

Gold goes in at any gate, except Heaven's. (R.)

He is rich that is satisfied.

He is not poor that hath little, but lie that
desireth much. (G. H.)

He is rich enough who owes nothing. ? (Fr.)

He has nothing who has not enough. ? (Fr.)

He that dies pays all debts.

He that hath little is the less dirty. (G. H.)

He that hath lost his credit is dead to the
world. (G. H.)

He will spend a whole year's rent at one meal's meat. (G. H.)

Health and money go far. (G. H.)

If you would know the value of money,
try to borrow it.

To know the price of money one must be compelled to
borrow.? (Fr.)

It costs more to do ill than well. (G. H.)

It costs more to revenge injuries than to
bear them.

It costs no more to amass great wealth
than little.

Monday for wealth,
Wendnesday for health,
Wednesday the best day of all :
Thursday for crosses,
Friday for losses,
Saturday no luck, at all.

Money cures melancholy.

Gold in the purse drives away melancholy. (Germ.)

Money breeds money.

Money is truly lost through want of money.

Money gains money, and not man's bones. ? (Span.)

Money brings money. ? (Span.)

One only lends to the rich.?

Money does not go so far as it did.

Gold goes worse than formerly.

Money is a good servant, but a bad master.

Money is money's worth.

That is gold which is worth gold. (G. H.)

Money is the sinews of love as well as of war.

Money is the sinews of war.

Money makes the man.

He is a good man who is a man of goods.? (Fr.)

Money is the measure of all things.

It is money makes the mare to trot.

Money refused loseth its brightness. (G. H.)

Money ruins many.

Money often unmakes its makers.

The abundance of money ruins youth. (R.)

Money taken, freedom forsaken.

Money will do more than my lord's letter. (E.)

More people are killed by supper than by the sword.?

Muck and money go together. (R.)

To-day must borrow nothing of to-morrow. ? (Germ.)

No man was ever as rich as all men ought to be.

Nothing is cheap if you don't want it. ? (Cato.)

On a good bargain think twice. (G. H.)

On a long journey even a straw is heavy.

On painting and fighting look afar off. (R.)

The more you have, the more you want.

The morning hour has gold in its mouth.

One can live on little, but not on nothing.

Pay well when you are, served well

Pay what you owe, and what you're
worth you'll know.

Pay what you owe, and be cured of
your complaint.? (Spare.)

Pension never enriched a young man. (G. H.)

The love of money and the love of
learning seldom meet. (G. H.)

The market is the best garden. (G. H.)

Cheapside is the best garden. ?

The more we work, the more we shall ba
down-trodden. ? (From the French.)

Wealth makes wit waver.

Wealth gal's wit waver. (R. Scj

Wealth makes worship. (B.)

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o "Give a loan and make an enemy."

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Notes: Eastern Proverb or Folk Saying on Money Matters

o "He who lacks a single tael sees many bargains."

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