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How you come by it no one asks; but wealth you must have.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about wealth, contentment

The gifts of fortune (windfalls) do not always benefit us.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about gifts, wealth

Fortune wearies with carrying one and the same man always.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about wealth, man

The highest spoke in fortune's wheel may soon turn lowest.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about wealth

Talent and poverty, wealth and stupidity generally dwell together.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about talent, stupidity, wealth, poverty

A few things gained by fraud destroy a fortune otherwise honestly won.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about destruction, wealth, things

Nobility without wealth is more worthless than the seaweed which the tide has left.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about wealth

To the patient man will come all the riches of the world.

Proverbs and old sayings Liberian about wealth, world, man

Do not boast about your wealth if you are a father.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about wealth, contentment

If it is not a boy it will be a girl, says the fortune-teller.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about wealth

Wealth is like hair in the nose: it hurts to be separated whether from a little or from a lot.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about wealth

Fortune is like a wall that falls on those who lean on it.

Proverbs and old sayings Mexican about wealth

The supreme treasure is knowledge, the middle treasure is children, and the lowest treasure is material wealth.

Proverbs and old sayings Mongolian about treasure, knowledge, wealth, children

Wealth is both an enemy and a friend.

Proverbs and old sayings Nepalese about wealth, enemies

Let him speak soft words and offer wealth who longs for a woman's love.

Proverbs and old sayings about wealth, word, woman, love

If haply a fool should find for himself wealth or a woman's love, pride waxes in him but wisdom never and onward he fares in his folly.

Proverbs and old sayings about proudness, wealth, wisdom, woman, love

Good fortune is loaned, not owned.

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

Credit is better than wealth.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about wealth

If fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your tooth.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about wealth, contentment

When fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your teeth.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about wealth, contentment