A penny soul never came to twopence
Копеечная душа никогда не возвышалась до двух копеек. Смысл: Мелочный человек никогда не достигал успеха.
Пожалеть алтына - потерять полтину.
Другие пословицы:
- Diligence is the mother of success (good luck)
- Children are poor men's riches
- Money has no smell
- A thief passes for a gentleman when stealing has made him rich
- He that serves God for money will serve the devil for better wages
- A good name is better than riches
- Time is money
- Penny-wise and pound-foolish
- Speech is silver but silence is gold
- A penny saved is a penny gained
- His money burns a hole in his pocket
- In for a penny, in for a pound
- Nothing succeeds like success
- Money often unmakes the men who make it
- No man loves his fetters, be they made of gold