The more you get, the more you want.
Crescit amor nummi, quantum ipsa pecunia crescit.
Proverbs on a similar topic
- Too much of one thing is good for nothing.
- Never too much of a good thing.
- Money will do anything.
- Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves.
- Little drops of water, little grains of sand, make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land.
- Cut your coat according to your cloth.
- Money is a good servant, but a bad master.
- Money makes the mare go.
- If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.
- All is fish that comes to the net.
- Money gets money.
- Appetite comes with eating.
- A silver key can open an iron lock.
- He that goes a-borrowing, goes a-sorrowing.
- Money has no smell.
- Give him an inch and he'll take an ell.
- Grasp all, lose all.
- A pin a day is a groat a year.
- As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
- Many small make a great.
- A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt.
- Penny and penny laid up will be many.
- Self comes first.
- Store is no sore.
- He that has no money, needs no purse.
- The camel going to seek horns, lost his ears.
- I gave the mouse a hole and she is become my heir.
- You can have no more of a cat but her skin.
- Envy never enriched any man.
- Two bigs will not go in one bag.
Related proverbs
Similar proverbs in the same language
English
- Much would have more.
- Poverty wants many things, and avarice all.
Similar proverbs in another language
Latin
- Crescit amor nummi, quantum ipsa pecunia crescit. The love of money grows as money itself grows.
- Qui multum habet, plus cupit. He who has much, wants more.
- Desunt inopiae multa, avaritiae omnia. There is much lack of want, everything of avarice.
- Homines quo plura habent, eo maiora cupiunt. The more people have, the more they want.
French
- Plus on boit, plus on a soif. The more you drink, the thirstier you get.
- Qui plus a plus convoite. Qui plus a plus convoite.
- Autant croît le désir que le trésor. As much desire as treasure grows.
- Plus a le diable, plus il veut avoir. The more the devil has, the more he wants to have.
- Les plus riches sont les plus chiches. The richest are the stingiest.
- Plus on a, plus on voudrait avoir. The more you have, the more you want.
German
- Je mehr man hat, je mehr man will. The more you have, the more you want.
- Je mehr der Geizige hat, je weniger wird er satt. The more the miser has, the less he will be satisfied.
Czech
- Čím více statku máme, tím více ho žádáme. The more property we have, the more we ask for it.
- Chudobě chybí mnoho, lakotě všechno. Poverty lacks much, avarice lacks everything.
- Honba za penězi nikdy nezná mezí. The pursuit of money knows no bounds.
- Kdo více má, tím více žádá. He who has more, asks more.