"A hungry man discovers more than a hundred lawyers" (Spanish).[718] Want sharpens industry and invention. "He thinks of everything who wants bread" (French).[719] "A poor man is all schemes" (Spanish).[720]
"Lorgitor artium, ingeniique magister
Venter."
"Poverty and hunger have many learned disciples" (German).[721] "Poverty is the sixth sense."[722] "It is cunning: it catches even a fox" (German).[723]
Need makes the old wife trot.[724]
Need makes the naked man run.
Need makes the naked quean spin.
"Hunger sets the dog a-hunting" (Italian).[725] "Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood" (Italian).[726]
Hunger will break through stone walls.
"A hungry dog fears not the stick" (Italian);[727] whereas "The full-fed sheep is frightened at her own tail" (Spanish).[728]
Poverty parteth good fellowship.
An old Scotch song says:—
"When I hae saxpence under my thumb,