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There is nothing in the world so poor as going to hell.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about hell, world, nothing

No-one is ever poor who has the sight of his eyes and the use of his feet.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about use, eyes

A penny in a poor man's pocket is better than two pennies in a rich man's pocket.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about wealth, man

Wisdom is what makes a poor man a king, a weak person powerful, a good generation of a bad one, a foolish man reasonable.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about wisdom, people, bad luck, man, bad, good, good luck

Beware of a poor alchemist.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Bed is the poor man's opera.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about man

Summer is the mother of the poor.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about mother

High birth is a poor dish on the table.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

No one ever became poor through giving alms.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

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

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

God save us from the enriched poor and from the impoverished rich.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about wealth, god

A ragged sack holds no grain, a poor man is not taken into counsel.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about moral, man

The poor is hated by his neighbour, but the rich hath many friends.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about wealth

A poor man's sheep will never get fat.

Proverbs and old sayings about man

If you cannot dance, you will say the drumming is poor.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about dance, contentment

The poor sleep soundly.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about sleep

The poor have no time to spare.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about time

He is poor who does not feel content.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

He is not poor that hath not feel content.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

A bad wife is a poor harvest for sixty years.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about wife, bad luck, bad