489 Proverbs about Gain / Page 15
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What he gains at the toll, loses at the customs.282.
Property gained unlawfully will be lost in the same way.283.
Against a thousand crows one stone is enough.284.
If you stab out the eye of thy neighbor cut off two finger and dip them in honey. Cook them in lemon curd and present them to his family in a pigeon pie. If they dine on a full moon his eye will sprout again from it's socket.285.
If you would make an enemy, lend a man money, and ask for it back again.286.
The wolf never wants a pretext against the lamb.287.
A morsel eaten gains no friend.288.
By going gains the mill, and not by standing still.289.
Children pick up words, as pigeons peas, And utter them again as God shall please.290.
Gain has a pleasant odour, come whence it will.291.
Money is not gained by losing time.292.
Better gain in mud than lose in gold.293.
The fruit of timidity is neither gain nor loss.294.
Be aware of the idiot, for he is like an old dress. Every time you patch it, the wind will tear it back again.295.
A person who does not speak out against the wrong is a mute devil.296.
One day is for us, and the other is against us.297.
Make your bargain before beginning to plow.298.
He who climbs a ladder comes down again.299.
Fortune is with you for an hour, and against you for ten.300.
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