Search in folklore: selling

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Making money selling manure is better than losing money selling musk.

Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian about money

Sleep after selling horses and elephants.

Proverbs and old sayings about sleep

Buying and selling is but winning and losing.

Proverbs and old sayings English

For overbuying there's no help but selling again.

Proverbs and old sayings French about help

If you buy things you don't need, you'll soon be selling things you do.

Proverbs and old sayings about things, commerce, need

With selling and buying there are neither friends nor cronies.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Whoever buys useless things will soon be selling his necessities.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about things

There is a great art in selling the wind.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about art, magic

Don't go selling the hide while the bear remains in the hole.

Proverbs and old sayings Yugoslavian

If you make a habit of buying things you do not need, you will soon be selling things you do.

Proverbs and old sayings Philippine about habits, things, need

If you buy things you don't need, you will soon be selling things you do need.

Proverbs and old sayings about need, things, commerce

Running and buying don't go together -- running and selling do.

Proverbs and old sayings German

You don't learn anything from buying, but you do from selling.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

Three things make a man rich: Earning and not spending, promising and not doing, buying and not selling.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wealth, things, man