Three women make a market. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The market is the best garden. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Good ware makes a quick market. [ Proverb ]
Send not to market for trouble. [ Proverb ]
Love is not found in the market. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Buy at a market, and sell at home. [ Proverb ]
As the market goes, wives must sell. [ Proverb ]
Three women and a goose make a market. [ Proverb ]
What is man,
If his chief good, and market of his time,
Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no man. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]
One may come soon enough to an ill market. [ Proverb ]
You have brought your hogs to a fair market. [ Proverb ]
A moneyless man goes fast through the market. [ Proverb ]
Send a fool to market and a fool he'll return. [ Proverb ]
No man can buy anything in the market with gentility. [ Lord Burleigh ]
You may know by the market-folks, how the market goes. [ Proverb ]
When a fool hath bethought himself, the market's over. [ Proverb ]
A man may come to market though he do not buy oysters. [ Proverb ]
As soon goes the lamb's skin to the market as the ewe's. [ Proverb ]
A friend in the market is better than money in the chest. [ Proverb ]
If fools went not to market, bad wares would not be sold. [ Proverb ]
Send your noble blood to market and see what it will buy. [ Proverb ]
He that cannot abide a bad market deserves not a good one. [ Proverb ]
Game is cheaper in the market than in the fields and woods. [ Proverb ]
The masses procure their opinions ready made in open market. [ Colton ]
Brain is always to be bought, but passion never comes to market. [ Lowell ]
He that sits to work in the market-place shall have many teachers. [ Proverb ]
Play with a fool at home, and he will'play with you in the market. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
None hastens to that market where nothing is to be bought but blows. [ Proverb ]
If you let a fool play with you at home, he will do with you in the market. [ Proverb ]
He that kisses his wife in the market-place shall have enough to teach him. [ Proverb ]
He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market. [ Ben Jonson ]
Fortune is like a market, where many times if you wait a little the price will fall. [ Bacon ]
Two heads are better than one; quoth the woman, when she had her dog with her to the market. [ Proverb ]
The way to wealth is as plain as the road to market. It depends chiefly on two words, - industry and frugality. [ Franklin ]
A sentimentalist is a man who sees an absurd value in everything and doesn't know the market price of a single thing. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society. We do not go to market with ingots, but with silver and small change. [ Chamfort ]
Pride's chickens have bonny feathers, but they are an expensive brood to rear. They eat up everything, and are always lean when brought to market. [ Alexander Smith ]
Qualities of a too superior order render a man less adapted to society. One does not go to market with big lumps of gold; one goes with silver or small change. [ Chamfort ]
The churchyard is the market-place where all things are rated at their true value, and those who are approaching it talk of the world and its vanities with a wisdom unknown before. [ Baxter ]