When you buy beef, you buy bones; when you buy land, you buy rocks.
Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about commerce, rocks, contentment
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If you want half a bread, beg smaddy buy it, but if yu want a wan, buy it yuself.
Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about commerce, contentment
To receive a favor is to sell one's liberty.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about liberty, commerce
A wild goose may be worth a hundred pieces of gold, but you first have to spend three pieces of gold to buy an arrow.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about commerce, contentment
If you have only two pennies left in the world, with the first penny, you should buy rice to feed your family. With the second penny, say the wise Japanese, you should buy a lily. The Japanese understand the importance of dreaming...
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about commerce, family, world, contentment
What a price we pay for experience, when we must sell our youth to buy it.
Proverbs and old sayings about commerce, experience, youth
Don't sell the sun to buy a candle.
Proverbs and old sayings Jewish about commerce, sun
Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.
Proverbs and old sayings Jewish about commerce, home, house
A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.
Proverbs and old sayings Jewish about enemies, commerce, nothing, contentment
Buy or die.
Proverbs and old sayings about commerce, death
You can't buy fate.
Proverbs and old sayings about destiny, commerce, contentment
He can sell ice on Rura Penthe.
Proverbs and old sayings about commerce
I would rather buy than beg.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about commerce
The gods sell all things for labour.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about gods, commerce, things
It is well to buy oil as well as salt.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about commerce
A friend that you buy with presents, will be bought from you.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about commerce, contentment
To place yourself under an obligation is to sell your liberty.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about liberty, commerce
He hath not a farthing left wherewith to buy a rope to hang himself.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about commerce
It is well to buy oil as well as salt. [Different remedies should be at hand when required. ]
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about commerce
If you sell a drum in your own village, you get the money and keep the sound.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about commerce, money, contentment
