Famous Proverbs
489 Proverbs about Gain / Page 2
11. The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.
12. If Candlemas day be sunny and bright, winter will have another flight; if Candlemas day be cloudy with rain, winter is gone and won't come again.
13. A good swimmer is not safe against drowning.
14. A mansion pulled down is half built up again.
15. For overbuying there's no help but selling again.
16. Fortune is a woman; if you neglect her to-day, expect not to regain her to-morrow.
17. Good bargains are ruinous.
18. He gains enough who loses sorrow.
19. He that does not ask will never get a bargain.
20. He that lets his fish escape, may cast his net often yet never catch it again.