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| A beggar is never out of his road. French. | 1 |
| A beggar nowhere suffers from famine. Tamil. | 2 |
| A beggar’s estate lies in all lands. Dutch. | 3 |
| A beggar’s hand is a bottomless basket. Dutch. | 4 |
| A beggar’s wallet empty is heavier than a full one. German. | 5 |
| A beggar’s wallet is never full. Portuguese. | 6 |
| A lordly taste makes a beggar’s purse. | 7 |
| A lord’s heart and a beggar’s purse agree not. | 8 |
| A prince wants a million, a beggar but a groat. | 9 |
| A shameless beggar must have a short denial. | 10 |
| Ae beggar is wae that anither by the gate gae. | 11 |
| Bare gentry—braggart beggars. | 12 |
| Beggars and borrowers must not be choosers. | 13 |
| Beggars breed and rich men feed. | 14 |
| Beggars can never be bankrupt. | 15 |
| Beggars fear no rebellion. | 16 |
| Beggars mounted run their horse to death. Shakespeare. | 17 |
| Better die a beggar than live a beggar. | 18 |
| Even the beggar envies the beggar. | 19 |
| He makes a beggar first that first relieves him. Heywood. | 20 |
| He’ll soon be a beggar that canna say na. | 21 |
| I know him as well as the beggar knows his dish. | 22 |
| If wishes were butter cakes, beggars might bite. | 23 |
| If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. | 24 |
| If wishes were thrushes beggars would eat birds. | 25 |
| It is a grief to the beggar that another stands by the door. Dutch. | 26 |
| One beggar likes not that another has wallets. Danish. | 27 |
| One day a beggar the next a thief. German. | 28 |
| Neither beg of him, who has been a beggar, nor serve him who has been a servant. Spanish. | 29 |
| Set a beggar on horseback and he won’t trot but gallops. Dutch. | 30 |
| Set a beggar on horseback and he’ll ride to the devil. | 31 |
| She loves the poor well but cannot abide beggars. | 32 |
| Small invitation will serve a beggar. | 33 |
| So soon as the beggar’s sack warms in one’s hands, he never does good any more. German. | 34 |
| The beggar is never out of his way. | 35 |
| The beggar is the enemy of the hound and the hound of the beggar. German. | 36 |
| The beggar may sing before the thief. | 37 |
| The beggar stands sure, he cannot become bankrupt. German. | 38 |
| The beggar’s sack never cries “hold enough.” German. | 39 |
| The beggar’s wallet has no bottom. Italian, German. | 40 |
| There is no pride like that of a beggar grown rich. French. | 41 |
| ’Tis one beggar’s woe to see another by the door go. | 42 |
To see a beggar’s brat in riches flow,
Adds not a wrinkle to my even brow. Dryden. | 43 |
| When it rains porridge the beggar has no spoon. Danish. | 44 |
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