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Never buy bread from a butcher.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about commerce

Never buy through your ears but through your eyes.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about commerce, eyes

It is not a sin to sell dear, but it is to make ill measure.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about measure, commerce, sin

A Tyrone woman will never buy a rabbit without a head for fear it's a cat.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about commerce, fear, heads, woman

Do not sell sun in July.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about commerce, sun

He who decries, wants to buy.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about commerce

Gold does not buy everything.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about commerce

Buy the bed of a great debtor.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about commerce

Sell me dear, and measure me fair.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about measure, commerce

He would sell even his share of the sun.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about commerce, sun

It is good to buy when another wants to sell.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about commerce, good, good luck

He who buys the broom can also buy the handle.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about commerce

Let us first catch the bear and then sell its skin.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about commerce, trap

Sell not the bear's skin before you have caught him.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about commerce, contentment

Don't sell the bearskin before you have caught the bear.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about commerce, contentment

Who gives sell, sells dear, if the receiver be not a churl.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about commerce

He that buys the office of magistrate must of necessity sell justice.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about justice, commerce

If you want to buy love, love itself is the price you'll have to pay.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about love, commerce, contentment

Buy what you have no need of and ere long you shall sell your necessaries.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about commerce, need, contentment

If a flea had money, it would buy its own dog.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about commerce, money