A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

revenue see THRIFT is a great revenue.
REVOLUTIONS are not made with rose-water
With reference to 1789 CHAMFORT in Marmontel Works (1818) II. 294 voulez-vous qu’on vous fasse des revolutions a Peau rose, do you require that revolutions be made with rose-water?

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  1819 BYRON Letter 3 Oct. (1976) VI. 226 On either side harm must be done before good can accrue—revolutions are not to be made with rose water. 1894 J. LUBBOCK Use of Life xi. It is sometimes said that Revolutions are not made with rose-water. Greater changes, however, have been made in the constitution of the world by argument than by arms. a 1931 T. M. HEALY letter in F. Callanan T. M. Healy (1996) The Sinns won in three years what we did not win in forty. You cannot make revolutions with rosewater, or omelettes without breaking eggs. ■politics; rulers and ruled; ways and means
  

reward see VIRTUE is its own reward.
The RICH man has his ice in the summer and the poor man gets his in the winter

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  1921 W. B. MASTERSON in Morning Telegraph (NY) 27 Oct. 7 There are those who argue that everything breaks even in this old dump of a world of ours. . . These ginks who argue that way hold that because the rich man gets ice in the Summer and the poor man gets it in the winter things are breaking even for both. a 1957 L. I. WILDER First Four Years (1971) ii. Everything evens up in the end. .. The rich man has his ice in the summer and the poor man gets his in the winter. 1986 J. W. RIDER Jersey Tomatoes xi. The rich get ice in the summer and the poor get it in the winter, so some people figure everyone gets an even break. ■equality; poverty; riches
  

rich see also it is BETTER to be born lucky than rich; one LAW for the rich and another for the poor.