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When a rich man caresses a poor man, he's going to take advantage of him.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wealth, man

Messina is clever, Palermo is pompous; Messina is rich, Palermo is greedy.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about intelligence, wealth

The vine always says to his uncle Frank: Make me poor and I'll make you rich.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wealth

Wealth and holiness, believe only half, if you believe less, you'll do better.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wealth

If the rich man is fawning over the poor man, you can be certain that he needs something.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wealth, man

When you have brains to go along with your wealth you can call yourself happy and content.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wealth, happiness

To get the best dowry, marry the poor man's first daughter but the rich man's last daughter.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wealth, man

Don't pay a single gold coin for the sorrell, but when he's good, be ready to spend a fortune.

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

The rich man breaks through the mesh and escapes, the afflicted man remains in the net and is caught.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wealth, man

Eat little and you'll live, speak little and you'll get it right, spend little and you'll become rich.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about rightness, wealth

If you show a rich man kindness, you gain nothing, but when you wrong him he avenges himself instantly.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about bad, wealth, nothing, man

Three things make a man rich: Earning and not spending, promising and not doing, buying and not selling.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wealth, things, man

Nobel and rich are the Messinans, heads of the kingdom are the Palermitani, the Catanians have a contented heart, and in Cefalu they are rich with fish.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about heads, wealth, heart

Timely rain cheers my soul; water and sun during seeding, inspires hope; the rains of April and May are late at night; then the good mornings, will be the wealth of the houses.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about soul, wealth, hope, rain, sun, night, water, good, good luck

Fortune aids the bold.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about wealth

Either rich or hanged.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about wealth

A good heart breaks bad fortune.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about wealth, heart, bad luck, bad, good, good luck

We are as the king, only not as rich.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about wealth

Women, wind, and fortune, soon change.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about change, wealth

When poor, liberal; when rich, stingy.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about wealth