To eat off another man's plate. [To live an another's expense.]
The guilty are alarmed and turn pale at the slightest thunder.
There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods.
When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.
A man's word Is believed just to the extent of the wealth in his coffers stored.