Spanish Proverb Quotes
He that is rich will not be called a fool.
Although there are rich people who are fools, having inherited their wealth or were lucky, but rarely does anyone refer to a rich person in those kinds of derogatory terms. They may be called unprincipled, nasty, greedy, but generally not stupid.
Spanish Proverb
Sourced by: Eigen's Political and Historical Quotations
The sense of the word affair is the general purpose, and Smith was referring to the fact when he investigated any proposed or implemented public scheme or law, there was an objective of someone obtaining money as a consequence. As journalists say in covering politics, “follow the money.”
Likely misattributed. The phrase was popularized by the writer Orville Schell in "To Get Rich Is Glorious: China in the '80s" (1984) but Schell never actually attributed the words to Deng, telling the L.A. Times's Evelyn Iritani in 2004 that it merely "grew out of the zeitgeist" of China's economic reforms.
Spanish proverbs are a subset of proverbs that are used in Western cultures in general; there are many that have essentially the same form and content as their counterparts in other Western languages. Proverbs that have their origin in Spanish have migrated to and from English, French, Flemish, German and other languages.
