Little goods, little care. [ Proverb ]
Little goods are soon spent. [ Proverb ]
Ill gotten goods seldom prosper. [ Proverb ]
Goods are theirs that enjoy them. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Goods are theirs only who enjoy them. [ Proverb ]
Of earthly goods the best, is a good wife. [ Simonides ]
One cannot live by selling goods for words. [ Proverb ]
Cheat me in the price, but not in the goods. [ Proverb ]
A man has no more goods than he gets good by. [ Proverb ]
O happiness of blindness! now no beauty
Inflames my lust; no other's goods my envy,
Or misery my pity; no man's wealth
Draws my respect; nor poverty my scorn,
Yet still I see enough! man to himself
Is a large prospect, raised above the level
Of his low creeping thoughts; if then I have
A world within myself, that world shall be
My empire; there I'll reign, commanding freely,
And willingly obeyed, secure from fear
Of foreign forces, or domestic treasons. [ Denham ]
Death rather frees us from ills than robs us of our goods. [ Proverb ]
Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods. [ C. C. Colton ]
This world is but a lottery of goods, of ranks, of dignities, of rights. [ Voltaire ]
The want of goods is easily repaired, but the poverty of the soul is irreparable. [ Montaigne ]
All other goods by fortune's hand are given; a wife is the peculiar gift of heaven. [ Pope ]
A taste which plenty does deprave loathes lawful goods, and lawless ill does crave. [ Dryden ]
Of earth's goods, the best is a good wife; a bad, the bitterest curse of human life. [ Simonides ]
He that defers his charity until he is dead is, if a man weighs it rightly, rather liberal of another man's goods than his own. [ Bacon ]
Prosperity is very liable to bring pride among the other goods with which it endows an individual; it is then that prosperity costs too dear. [ Hosea Ballou ]
A majority of women seem to consider themselves sent into the world for the sole purpose of displaying dry goods, and it is only when acting the part of an animated milliner's block that they feel they are performing their appropriate mission. [ Abba Goold Woolson ]
Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise - the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods. There are apartments in their souls which were once tenanted by taste, and love, and joy, and worship, but they are all deserted now, and the rooms are filled with earthy and material things. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
If you attempt to beat a man down and to get his goods for less than a fair price, you are attempting to commit burglary, as much as though you broke into his shop to take the things without paying for them. There is cheating on both sides of the counter, and generally less behind it than before it. [ Beecher ]
Yorick sometime?, in his wild way of talking, would say that gravity was an arrant scoundrel, and, he would add, of the most dangerous kind, too, because a sly one; and that he verily believed more honest well-meaning people were bubbled out of their goods and money by it in one twelvemonth than by pocket-picking and shop-lifting in seven. [ Sterne ]