Search in folklore: rich, page 19

Who is blind? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich? He who is happy with his lot.

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

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

It would make a man scratch where it doth not itch, To see a man live poor to die rich.

Greed keeps men forever poor, even the abundance of this world will not make them rich.

He that learns naught will never know how one is the fool of another, for if one be rich another is poor and for that should bear no blame.

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

Get what you can and keep what you have that's the way to get rich.

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

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

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

He who is everybody's friend is either very poor or very rich.

As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich.

Listening to good advice is the way to wealth.

Having a good discussion is like having riches.

Don't trust in fortune until you are in heaven.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

Night of the Saint Andrew

On the 30th of November, Romaian people is celebrating Saint Andrew, the spiritual patriarch of Romania.

The night before Saint Andrew's Eve is known as the night of the ghosts( strigoi), strigoi means in Romanian...

Fortune is blind, but not invisible.

One should go invited to a friend in good fortune, and uninvited in misfortune.