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What are the proverbs about poverty and wealth?

Poverty and wealth are very real realities in society. People’s lives are either poor or rich. I have compiled some proverbs about poverty and wealth for you, I hope you like it.

Selected proverbs about poverty and wealth

1) The sun shines brightly when it escapes from the clouds, and the slave who escapes from the rich man’s house is wise. (Tibetan)

 2) Those with low status have the right to speak out. (Korean)

3) Bayi (landowner) does not know the discomfort of hunger, and herdsmen do not know the taste of fullness. (Kazakh)

4) Getting rich is not the purpose of life, and poverty is not a shame for the poor. (Kirgiz)

5) If the wall is broken, there will be many sparrows, and if the people are poor, there will be many disasters. (Uyghur)

6) A family is happy every day; a poor family is worried every day. (Uygur)

7) The oil seller combs her hair with water, and the fan seller covers her head with her hands.

8) Farmers eat rice bran, and salt sellers drink light soup.

9) Oxen plow the fields, horses eat grain, and the poor enjoy the blessings of the rich.

10) The carpenter’s house has no stool to sit on, and the oil seller has to comb her hair with water. Proverbs about poverty and wealth

1) The rich sleep in gauze tents, and the poor sleep in straw fields.

2) If you are poor, you will not learn to be frugal, and if you are humble, you will not learn to be respectful.

3) A horse that is unable to move will be poor and thin, and a person who is not romantic will be poor.

4) I look forward to good times every year, and my sweatshirt is patched like a jacket.

5) People will no longer be sick after death, and no longer be poor when begging.

6) It never rains for a hundred days, and people are never the same as poor or rich, with average skin and flesh.

7) Wealth has no roots, poverty has no seedlings. The poor cannot be bullied and the rich cannot be relied upon.

8) Don’t be afraid of evil, just be afraid of poverty.

9) Hedong turns to Hexi in ten years.

10) Don’t laugh at the poor wearing rags.

11) Thousand-year-old tiles will also turn around, and no poor person will ever be poor.

12) Wang Xiaoer celebrates the New Year, and every year is worse than the last.

13) The sun shines brightly when it escapes from the clouds, and the slave who escapes from the rich man’s house is wise. (Tibetan)

14) Those with low status have their own words to speak. (Korean)

15) Bayi (landowner) does not know the discomfort of hunger, and herdsmen do not know the taste of fullness. (Kazakh)

16) Getting rich is not the purpose of life, and poverty is not a shame for the poor. (Kirgiz)

17) If the wall is broken, there will be many sparrows, and if the people are poor, there will be many disasters. (Uyghur)

18) The family is happy every day, and the poor family is worried every day. (Uygur)

19) The oil seller combs her hair with water, and the fan seller covers her head with her hands.

20) Farmers eat rice bran, and salt sellers drink light soup. Common proverbs about poverty and wealth

1) Oxen plow the fields, horses eat grain, and the poor enjoy the blessings of the rich.

2) The carpenter’s house has no stool to sit on, and the oil seller has to comb her hair with water.

3) There is not a tile above and not an inch of soil below.

4) People who build cars often walk.

5) The blacksmith doesn’t have a kitchen knife at home.

6) The masons live in thatched cottages, and the weaver girls have no clothes.

7) Those who make mats sleep on the floor, and those who burn kilns eat broken bowls.

8) If you work hard, you won’t make money; if you work hard, you won’t make money.

9) After collecting hundreds of flowers and turning them into nectar, it will be sweet to whomever you work hard for.

10) Farmers have three knives over their heads: heavy rents, heavy taxes, and high interest rates.

11) The abacus rings and the tears flow. Being cold is afraid of the wind, being poor is afraid of being in debt.

12) It’s cold in the wind, and the poor are poor in their rent.

13) Leng Mo Leng is in the wind. Debt is like a headless rope, which cannot be untied and binds people to death.

14) Grain is exchanged for money, money is exchanged for grain. Borrowing a stone will destroy a house.

15) Money is flying everywhere, and the poor are hungry.

16) Whoever becomes an emperor must pay for food.

17) The lamp lit by tung oil will not light up, and the poor will not speak loudly.

18) Don’t climb high ridges when it’s raining, and don’t climb high relatives if you are poor.

19) The one who rides the horse cannot finish the food, and the one who feeds the horse cannot eat enough. (Uygur)

 20) The rich are buried in piles of money, and the poor are buried in piles of debts. (Uygur)

21) The lies of rich people become truth, and the truth of poor people becomes lies. (Uygur)

 22) The trousers of silkworm farmers are torn, and the trousers of idlers wear silk clothes. (Zhuang ethnic group)

 23) The wife who grows vegetables eats her feet, and the wife who makes shoes goes barefoot. (Zhuang Nationality)

 24) To be poor is to be clean, and to be hungry is to be hard-hearted. (Zhuang)

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