A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

A MONEYLESS man goes fast through the market
The proverb is explained in quot. 1721. The last example represents a variation of the original proverb, asserting that a person rushes to wherever what he lacks may be found. Cf. late 14th-cent. Fr. cilz qui n’a point d’argent n’a que faire au тагсЫё, he who has no money can only go to (i.e. cannot buy anything at) the market.

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  1721 J. KELLY Scottish Proverbs 10 A silverless Man goes fast through the Market. Because he does not stay to cheapen [bargain] or buy. 1732 T. FULLER Gnomologia no. 330 A Moneyless Man goes fast thro’ the Market. 1977 J. AIKEN Five-Minute Marriage iv. Found your way here at last, then, miss, have you? A moneyless mare trots fast to the market. "buying and selling; poverty
  

monk see the COWL does not make the monk.
monkey see the HIGHER the monkey climbs, the more he shows his tail; if you PAY peanuts, you get monkeys; SOFTLY, softly, catchee monkey.
moon see NO moon, no man.
moor see BETTER wed over the mixen than over the moor.
MORE people know Tom Fool than Tom Fool knows
Tom Fool is a name traditionally given to a simpleton, or to one who acts the part of a fool, as in a drama or morris dance.

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  1656 S. HOLLAND Wit & Fancy II. i. In all Comedies more know the Clown, then the Clown knows. 1723 DEFOE Colonel Jack (ed. 2) 347 It was no satisfaction to me that
  

I knew not their faces, for they might know mine . . according to the old English proverb, ‘that more knows Tom Fool, than Tom Fool knows’. 1865 SURTEES Facey Romford’s Hounds xxxii. ‘Good mornin’, Mr. Swig,’ said the man; for the aphorism that ‘more people know Tom Fool than Tom Fool knows,’ holds particularly good as regards huntsmen and field servants. 1980 L. MEYNELL Hooky & Prancing Horse iv. Hooky asked . . ‘How’s the great pulsating world of journalism?’ Mac was . . surprised; but he consoled himself with the thought that more people know Tom Fool than Tom Fool knows. 2000 ‘C. AIRD’ Little Knell (2001) xv. 170 ‘I reckon that just at this minute, sir, there’s more that we don’t know about this girl’s murder than what we do.. ‘ ‘More people always know Tom Fool, Crosby.’ ■ associates; fame and obscurity