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Plough your furrows deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about commerce, sleep, americans, contentment

Ask thy purse what thou should'st buy.

Proverbs and old sayings about commerce

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverbs and old sayings about risk, commerce, knowledge, good, good luck

He who wants to sell his honor will always find a buyer.

Proverbs and old sayings about commerce

Call someone your lord and he'll sell you in the slave market.

Proverbs and old sayings about commerce, stores, contentment

If you buy cheap meat, when it boils you smell what you have saved.

Proverbs and old sayings about commerce, contentment

Don't send an old man to buy a donkey, nor a young man to woo a wife.

Proverbs and old sayings about commerce, wife, man, old, olderness

If you buy cheap meat, you'll smell what you have saved when it boils.

Proverbs and old sayings about commerce, contentment

Do not buy either the moon or the news, for in the end they will both come out.

Proverbs and old sayings about moon, commerce, end

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverbs and old sayings about commerce, power, mother, contentment

If I had two loaves of bread, I would sell one and buy hyacinths, for they would feed my soul.

Proverbs and old sayings about commerce, soul

You can buy everything, except a father and a mother.

Proverbs and old sayings about commerce, mother, contentment

De tongue dat buy yuh does sell yuh.

Proverbs and old sayings about commerce

Don't sell eggs in the bottom of hens.

Proverbs and old sayings Bengali about commerce

Weigh justly and sell dearly.

Proverbs and old sayings British about commerce

Ye'll no sell your hen in a rainy day.

Proverbs and old sayings British about commerce, day

Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverbs and old sayings British about commerce, man

An inch of gold will not buy an inch of time.

Proverbs and old sayings British about commerce, time

He that speaks ill of the mare would buy her.

Proverbs and old sayings British about commerce

It is no sin to sell dear, but a sin to give ill measure.

Proverbs and old sayings British about sin, measure, commerce