Famous Proverbs
480 Proverbs about Rich / Page 19
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He who has nothing to lose is rich.182.
If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives.183.
Riches: A dream in the night. Fame: A gull floating on water.184.
The only thing that was missing at the rich man's funeral was mourners.185.
The poor can only guess at what wealth is; the rich don't know what poverty means.186.
The poor ones give their alms in a humble way, the rich man throws them down with contempt.187.
Though the emperor be rich, he cannot buy one extra year.188.
With virtue you can't be entirely poor; without virtue you can't really be rich.189.
The beggar that begs near another beggar will never be rich.190.
When a man is not a lover in his twenties, not strong in his thirties, not rich in his forties and not wise in his fifties he will never be so.