Search in folklore: wealth

727 results

You're young if you're healthy, and rich if you have no debts.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wealth

A bequest, a found treasure, and parsimony make a man wealthy.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about treasure, man

Whoever falls in love with an old person laments their fortune.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wealth, people, love, old, olderness

When a rich man comes to bad times, he doesn't know what to do.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wealth, bad luck, bad, man

To be rich with bees and mares, is to be rich and have nothing.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wealth, nothing

Castedduvitranu, Castelvetrano, rich in eggplants and good wine.

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

The gallows is not made for the rich, but for the head of the peasant.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about peasantry, wealth, heads

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

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

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

One cannot count on riches.

Proverbs and old sayings about wealth

Fortune aids the bold.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about wealth