296 Proverbs about Fortune / Page 14
261. Try out your shoes on your feet -- gauge people against their misfortune.
262. It is easy to bear the misfortunes of others.
263. Fortune is weary to carry one and the same man always.
264. Fortune is blind.
265. Manners make often fortunes.
266. Misfortune is not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.
267. Misfortunes hasten age.
268. Misfortunes come of themselves.
269. Misfortune does not restrict his visits to one day.
270. A pot trader whose fortunes are all invested in her clay pots isn't much of a merchant.
271. Stolen things bring in misfortune.
272. "If it is not a boy it will be a girl," says the fortune-teller.
273. Good fortune is loaned, not owned.
274. The misfortune that comes into town does not wear a turban.
275. A fortune-teller would never be unhappy.
276. If everyone's misfortunes were seen by all in broad daylight, in the end people would take back their own.
277. The bad fortune of Zoza: in winter it sees not the sun and in summer it sees not the moon.
278. Don't pay a single gold coin for the sorrell, but when he's good, be ready to spend a fortune.
279. It takes both luck and good fortune just to fry eggs.
280. Unexpected good fortune, gets more appreciation.
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