Beggar | Proverbs in English

Proverbs:

A beggar is never out of his road.: French

A beggar nowhere suffers from famine.: Tamil

A beggar’s estate lies in all lands.: Dutch

A beggar’s hand is a bottomless basket.: Dutch

A beggar’s wallet empty is heavier than a full one.: German

A beggar’s wallet is never full.: Portuguese

A lordly taste makes a beggar’s purse.: *

A lord’s heart and a beggar’s purse agree not.: *

A prince wants a million, a beggar but a groat.: *

A shameless beggar must have a short denial.: *

Ae beggar is wae that anither by the gate gae.: *

Bare gentry—braggart beggars.: *

Beggars and borrowers must not be choosers.: *

Beggars breed and rich men feed.: *

Beggars can never be bankrupt.: *

Beggars fear no rebellion.: *

Beggars mounted run their horse to death.: Shakespeare

Better die a beggar than live a beggar.: *

Even the beggar envies the beggar.: *

He makes a beggar first that first relieves him.: Heywood

He’ll soon be a beggar that canna say na.: *

I know him as well as the beggar knows his dish.: *

If wishes were butter cakes, beggars might bite.: *

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.: *

If wishes were thrushes beggars would eat birds.: *

It is a grief to the beggar that another stands by the door.: Dutch

One beggar likes not that another has wallets.: Danish

One day a beggar the next a thief.: German

Neither beg of him, who has been a beggar, nor serve him who has been a servant.: Spanish

Set a beggar on horseback and he won’t trot but gallops.: Dutch

Set a beggar on horseback and he’ll ride to the devil.: *

She loves the poor well but cannot abide beggars.: *

Small invitation will serve a beggar.: *

So soon as the beggar’s sack warms in one’s hands, he never does good any more.: German

The beggar is never out of his way.: *

The beggar is the enemy of the hound and the hound of the beggar.: German

The beggar may sing before the thief.: *

The beggar stands sure, he cannot become bankrupt.: German

The beggar’s wallet has no bottom.: Italian

There is no pride like that of a beggar grown rich.: French

’Tis one beggar’s woe to see another by the door go.: *

To see a beggar’s brat in riches flow, Adds not a wrinkle to my even brow.: Dryden

When it rains porridge the beggar has no spoon.: Danish

Proverbs theme "Beggar" in English

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