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Do not buy a carrier's ass, or marry an innkeeper's daughter.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about commerce

They who don't keep goats and yet sell kids, where do they get them?

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about commerce

Plough deep whilst sluggards sleep, And you shall have corn to sell and to keep.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about commerce, sleep, contentment

As for friars, live with them, eat with them, and walk with them; then sell them as they do themselves.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about commerce

To buy the pig in the bag.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about commerce

Many buy the bearskin before the bear is shot.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about commerce

Don't sell the fur until the bear has been shot.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about commerce

If you buy what you don't need, you steal from yourself.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about commerce, need, contentment

Better to sell it with regret than to keep it.

Proverbs and old sayings Swiss about regret, commerce

An Aleppine can sell even a dried donkey skin.

Proverbs and old sayings Syrian about commerce

The gods sell all things at a fair price.

Proverbs and old sayings about gods, commerce, things

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverbs and old sayings about liberty, commerce, money

Don't sell the fish that is still swimming in the ocean.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about commerce, fishing

With gold I can buy things; with thinking I can understand things.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about thinking, things, commerce

Tis better to buy a small bouquet And give to your friend this very day, Than a bushel of roses white and red To lay on his coffin after he's dead.

Proverbs and old sayings about commerce, day

Catch the bear before you sell his skin.

Proverbs and old sayings Vietnamese about commerce, trap, contentment

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Proverbs and old sayings about commerce

Money will buy you everything but good sense.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about common sense, sense, commerce, money, good, good luck, contentment

Ask about your neighbors, and then buy the house.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about commerce, home, house

You buy yourself an enemy when you lend a man money.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about commerce, enemies, money, contentment, man