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.