Weigh right and sell dear. [ Proverb ]
You must sell as markets go. [ Proverb ]
Better sell than live poorly. [ Proverb ]
Weigh justly and sell dearly. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Buy at a fair, but sell at home. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Buy at a market, and sell at home. [ Proverb ]
Buy and sell, and live by the loss. [ Proverb ]
As the market goes, wives must sell. [ Proverb ]
Furniture and mane make the horse sell. [ Proverb ]
Of judgment every one has some to sell. [ Italian Proverb ]
Who will sell the cow must say the word. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
None sows such a grain as will not sell. [ Proverb ]
I cannot sell the cow and drink her milk. [ Proverb ]
You have no goats, and yet you sell kids. [ Proverb ]
He that buys magistracy must sell justice. [ Proverb ]
To beg a courtesy is to sell one's liberty. [ Proverb ]
If you sell the cow, you sell her milk too. [ Proverb ]
It is a great act of life to sell air well. [ Proverb ]
They that buy an office must sell something. [ Proverb ]
He that will sell lawn must learn to fold it. [ Proverb ]
You cannot sell the cow and have her milk too. [ Proverb ]
They may sit in the chair who have malt to sell. [ Proverb ]
Sell not the bear-skin before you have caught him. [ Proverb ]
The man that once did sell the lion's skin
While the beast lived, was killed with hunting him. [ William Shakespeare ]
There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls,
Doing more murders in this loathsome world.
Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell,
I sell thee poison, thou hast sold me none. [ William Shakespeare ]
Gold, worse poison to men's souls,
Doing more murder in this loathsome world,
Than these poor compounds that thou may'st not sell. [ Shakespeare ]
To whom you betray your secret you sell your liberty. [ Franklin ]
It is not a sin to sell dear, but it is to make ill measure. [ Proverb ]
He that will sell his fame will also sell the public interest. [ Solon ]
For any man to match above his rank is but to sell his liberty. [ Massinger ]
He that buys what he does not want, must often sell what he does want. [ Proverb ]
Sell your confidence at a high price, if at all; to be strong, keep your own counsel. [ Dumas, Pere ]
The French have a significant saying, that a woman who buys her complexion will sell it. [ Tuckerman ]
Truth is to be costly to you - of labour and patience; and you are never to sell it, but to guard and to give. [ John Ruskin ]
Would they could sell us experience, though at diamond prices, but then no one would use the article second-hand! [ Balzac ]
It is a law of the gods which is never broken, to sell somewhat dearly the great benefits which they confer on us. [ Corneille ]
Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep. [ Benjamin Franklin ]
Plays and romances sell as well as books of devotion, but with this difference, - more people read the former than buy them, and more buy the latter than read them. [ T. Hughes ]
There is a Spanish proverb that a lapidary who would grow rich must buy of those who go to be executed, as not caring how cheap they sell; and sell to those who go to be married, as not caring how dear they buy. [ Fuller ]
People seldom read a book which is given to them; and few are given. The way to spread a work is to sell it at a low price. No man will send to buy a thing that costs even sixpence without an intention to read it. [ Johnson ]