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Do not run into debt with a rich man, or promise anything to a poor one.

Proverbs and old sayings Cuban about promise, wealth, man

Promise is debt.

Proverbs and old sayings English about promise

A poor man's debt makes a great noise.

Proverbs and old sayings English about man

Better go to bed supperless than to rise in debt.

Proverbs and old sayings English

There is never a debt is paid so high as that which the wet owes to the dry.

Proverbs and old sayings English

A debt is always new.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian

Who borrows has to pay back his debt.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian

He who gets out of debt enriches himself.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Every one must pay his debt to nature.

Proverbs and old sayings German about nature

Better to go to bed supperless than run in debt.

Proverbs and old sayings German

A hundred years of regret pay not a farthing of debt.

Proverbs and old sayings German about regret

There is a great uproar made about the debt of a poor man.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about man

Forgetting a debt does not pay it.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about forgetness

A debt is still unpaid, even if forgotten.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

A small debt makes a man your debtor, a large one your enemy.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about enemies, man

Every promise is a debt.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about promise

Without debt without care.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Who pays a debt creates capital.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

He who is without debt is without credit.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

A pound a fret can't pay an ounce a debt.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican