Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887.
Merchant
A merchant has never enough till he has got a little more.Spectator.
A merchant’s happiness hangs upon chance, winds and waves.
He is no merchant who always gains.Dutch.
He that buys and sells is called a merchant.
He that could know what would be dear,
Need be a merchant but one year.
If a man knew when things would be dear
He need be a merchant but one year.
Like the merchant that dammed up and drained a river to recover a grain of pepper.Tamil.
Merchant to-day, beggar to-morrow.
Quick returns make rich merchants.
The merchant that loseth cannot laugh.French.
The merchant that gains not, loseth.
To be a merchant the art consists more in getting paid than in making sales.Spanish.