692 Proverbs about Want / Page 14
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I don't want the cheese; I just want out of the trap.262.
If you want to be dead, wash your head and go to bed.263.
If you want to be revenged, hold your tongue.264.
If you want to beat a dog, say he eat your iron.265.
If you want to know secrets, seek for them in trouble or in pleasure.266.
If you want to know what a ducat is worth, try to borrow one.267.
If you want to know what a man is really like, notice how he acts when he loses money.268.
If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive.269.
If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.270.
If you want to thrash your wife, ask her for a drink of water in the sun.271.
Mary Busybody never wants a bad day, and Mary Drone has God to give and bring to her.272.
Praise yourself, basket, for I want to sell you.273.
Take what you want, then pay for it.274.
The horseshoe that clatters wants a nail.275.
The more one has the more one wants.276.
The more you get the more you want.277.
The old for want of ability, and the young for want of knowledge, let things be lost.278.
There is no worse apprentice than the one who doesn't want to know.279.
What is in use, wants no excuse.280.
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