Search in folklore: lose

Don't be too bold, or you will burn your eyes; but don't be too slow, or you will lose your share.

If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice how he acts when he loses money.

Conceal not your secret from your friend, or you deserve to lose him.

If you forsake a certainty for an uncertainty, you will lose both the certainty and the uncertainty.

It is better to make money in the straw market than to lose it in the money market.

When your wine is finished, conversation ends; when your money has been spent, you lose your friends.

The good that you scoff at and ignore, you'll recognize when you lose it.

When you have money you live happily, when you don't you lose your friends

Oh, oh, oh! three times I say it, who falls into poverty loses his friends.

Don't leave the small quantity to get the big quantity because you might lose the one as well as the other.

If you want to know what a man is really like, notice how he acts when he loses money.

A rich man will get his carriage over the mountains, a poor man will lose his way on a level plain.

Lesson: Don't lose your pen

1. Lost Your Pen = No Pen
2. No Pen = No Notes
3. No Notes = No Study
4. No Study = Fail
5. Fail = No Diploma
6. No Diploma = No Work
7. No Work = No Money
8. No Money = No Food
9. No Food = You Get Skinny
10. Skinny = Then You Get Ugly...