Quotes
Quotes about Buying
It's no fish ye 're buying, it's men's lives.
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
It embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and alligator shoes that were hurting my feet; cars that I just parked, and the dust would just build up on them.
Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
If you make a habit of buying things you do not need, you will soon be selling things you do.
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
If you are buying a cow, make sure that the price of the tail is included.
Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.
Buying is a profound pleasure.
In writing advertising it must always be kept in mind that the customer often knows more about the goods than the advertising writers because they have had experience in buying them . . .
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.
Buying on trust is the way to pay double.
Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately, and it gives you a lift. The hangover comes the day after.
Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately, and it gives you a lift. The hangover comes the day after.
Buying is a profound pleasure.
Buying is cheaper than asking.
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all. [Lat., Non esse cupidum, pecunia est; non esse emacem, vectigal est; contentum vero suis rebus esse, maximae sunt, certissimaeque divitiae.]
