If it should rain pottage, he would want his dish. 
Proverbs on a similar topic
- Necessity is the mother of invention.
- To make a virtue of necessity.
- Nothing for nothing.
- In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
- Half a loaf is better than no bread.
- Poverty is the mother of crime.
- Losers are always in the wrong.
- Poverty is no sin.
- Poverty is the mother of all arts.
- An empty sack cannot stand upright.
- Where nothing is the king must lose his right.
- An empty purse fills the face with wrinkles.
- If thou hast not a capon, feed on an onion.
- A man cannot give What he hasn't got.
- Need makes the old wife trot.
- The beggar may sing before the thief.
- Nail drives out nail.
- Who has no horse may ride on a staff.
Related proverbs
Similar proverbs in the same language
English
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God sends corn and the devil mars the sack.
Similar proverbs in another language
French
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Tel a du pain qui n'a point de dents.
Such has bread that has no teeth.
German
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Mancher hat Brot, wenn er keine Zähne mehr hat.
Some people have bread when they no longer have teeth.
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Wenn es Suppe regnet, hat der Bettler keine Schüssel.
When it rains soup, the beggar has no bowl.
Czech
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Bez konce potřeba, když je víno, není chleba.
No end needed, when there is wine, there is no bread.