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The rich have many friends.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about wealth

Beggars breed and rich men feed.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about wealth, man

Better poor on land that rich at sea.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about wealth

Like will to like, be they poor or rich.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about wealth

Better poor with honor than rich with shame.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about shame, wealth

Better poor with honour than rich with shame.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about honour, shame, wealth

The idle remarks of the rich are taken as maxims of wisdom by the poor.

Proverbs and old sayings about wisdom, wealth

A rich man's joke is always funny.

Proverbs and old sayings English about joke, wealth, man

It is better to be born lucky than rich.

Proverbs and old sayings English about wealth

God help the rich man, let the poor man beg.

Proverbs and old sayings English about help, wealth, god, man

All work and no play makes Jack filthy rich.

Proverbs and old sayings English about work, wealth

All ask if a man be rich, no one if he be good.

Proverbs and old sayings English about wealth, good, good luck, man

Everyone is weary: the poor in seeking, the rich in keeping, the good in learning.

Proverbs and old sayings English about wealth, good, good luck

A man who has learned much is rich.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian about wealth, man

When death comes, the rich man has no money and the poor man no debt.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian about death, wealth, money, man

There is no one who became rich because he broke a holiday, and no one who became fat because he broke a fast.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about holidays, fasting, wealth

The slimming of an elephant and the losses of a rich man are not noticeable.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about wealth, man

Work earns a living but trade makes you rich.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about commerce, work, wealth

If you borrow some chaff from the rich man you have to repay him with wheat.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about wealth, man

He is rich who is satisfied.

Proverbs and old sayings French about wealth