The camel going to seek horns, lost his ears. 
Proverbes sur un sujet similaire
- The more you get, the more you want.
- 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.
- A silver key can open an iron lock.
- Appetite comes with eating.
- He that goes a-borrowing, goes a-sorrowing.
- Give him an inch and he'll take an ell.
- Money has no smell.
- 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.
- 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.
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Proverbes similaires dans une autre langue
Latin
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Camelus desiderans cornua etiam aures perdidit.
Le chameau, manquant de cornes, perdit aussi ses oreilles.
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Camelus cornu desiderans etiam auriculas amisit.
Un chameau dépourvu de corne a également perdu ses oreilles.
Allemand
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Das Kamel ging um Hörner zu suchen aus und kam ohne Ohren nach Haus.
Le chameau partit à la recherche de cornes et revint à la maison sans oreilles.
Tchèque
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Kdo za cizí vlnou odchází, sám ostřižen domů přichází.
Celui qui se lance à la poursuite d'une vague inconnue, rentre seul, coupé du monde.
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Velbloud, chtěje rohů, i uši ztratil.
Le chameau, qui voulait des cornes, a perdu ses oreilles.