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Don't worry if you borrow, but worry if you lend.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about worry

If I can get his cart at a Waltar, I shall lend it a put.

Proverbs and old sayings

Luck never gives; it only lends.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about bad luck, good luck

He that lends you hinders you to buy.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about commerce

He that lends money to a friend has a double loss.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about money

He that lends his pot may seethe his kail in his loof.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

Don't lend out something that you're going to soon need.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about need

There are four things to which you should not lend credence: love of women, the charity of friars, sun in the winter, and clouds in the summer.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about charity, sun, things, love

You lend a false ear to false words.

Proverbs and old sayings

He who has but one coat cannot lend it.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

Who lends recovers not; or if he recovers, recovers not all; or if not all, not much; of if much, a mortal enemy.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about enemies

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

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

No matter how often a man quarrels with his wife he doesn't do so during the hours lending to bedtime.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about wife, man

The world still he keeps at his staff's end that needs not to borrow and never will lend.

Proverbs and old sayings British about world, end

Your wife and your wheelbarrow are two things that you should never lend to anyone.

Proverbs and old sayings about wife, things