Better buy than borrow. [ Proverb ]
Money cannot buy merit. [ Proverb ]
Beauty will buy no beef. [ Proverb ]
He that blames would buy. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Bare words buy no barley. [ Proverb ]
To buy dear is not bounty. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
You go to a goat to buy wool. [ Proverb ]
I will not buy a pig in a poke. [ Proverb ]
Buy at a fair, but sell at home. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
He who finds fault means to buy. [ Proverb ]
A man may buy even gold too dear. [ Proverb ]
Buy at a market, and sell at home. [ Proverb ]
Ask your purse what you should buy. [ Proverb ]
Buy and sell, and live by the loss. [ Proverb ]
He hasn't a penny left to buy a halter. [ Proverb ]
Then fill each hour with what will last;
Buy up the moments as they go;
The life above, when this is past,
Is the ripe fruit of life below. [ Horatius Bonar ]
No man is rich enough to buy back his past. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]
You have too much respect upon the world:
They lose it that do buy it with much care. [ William Shakespeare ]
Oh! I have pass'd a miserable night.
So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams.
That, as I am a Christian faithful man,
I would not spend another such a night
Though 'twere to buy a world of happy days. [ William Shakespeare ]
They that buy an office must sell something. [ Proverb ]
We'll bark ourselves if we buy dogs so dear. [ Proverb ]
From powerful causes spring the empiric's gains.
Man's love of life, his weakness, and his pains;
These first induce him the vile trash to try,
Then lend his name that other men may buy. [ Crabbe ]
We will bark ourselves ere we'll buy dogs so dear. [ Proverb ]
Never buy what you do not want because it is cheap.
If you buy the cow, take the tail into the bargain. [ Proverb ]
What is an estate good for, if it cannot buy content? [ Proverb ]
No man can buy anything in the market with gentility. [ Lord Burleigh ]
A man may come to market though he do not buy oysters. [ Proverb ]
Why buy good luggage, you only use it when you travel. [ Yogi Berra ]
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. [ Thoreau ]
Neither marry nor buy an old beast; the reason is plain. [ Proverb ]
Send your noble blood to market and see what it will buy. [ Proverb ]
He may very well be contented that need not buy nor flatter. [ Proverb ]
A friend that you buy with presents will be bought from you. [ Proverb ]
Many there be, that buy nothing with their money but repentance. [ Proverb ]
The dearer it is, the cheaper it is to me, for I shall buy the less. [ Proverb ]
Money will buy money's worth: but the thing men call fame, what is it? [ Carlyle ]
The universe would not be rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man. [ St. Gregory ]
Buy not what you want, but what you need; what you don't want is dear at a cent. [ Cato ]
I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did. [ Yogi Berra ]
Day and night, sun and moon, air and light, every one must have, and none can buy. [ Proverb ]
Who thinketh to buy villainy with gold, Shall ever find such faith so bought - so sold. [ William Shakespeare ]
A friend that you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him, no matter what that may be. [ George D. Prentice ]
Health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of: a blessing that money cannot buy. [ Izaak Walton ]
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy; for the apparel oft proclaims the man. [ William Shakespeare ]
Of yore, they languished, they burned, they died for love; today, they chat about it, they make it, and, more often, they buy it. [ Jouy ]
At the age of sixty, to marry a beautiful girl of sixteen, is to imitate those ignorant people who buy books to be read by their friends. [ A. Ricard ]
Plays and romances sell as well as books of devotion, but with this difference, - more people read the former than buy them, and more buy the latter than read them. [ T. Hughes ]
To buy books only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because made by some famous tailor. [ Pope ]
There is a Spanish proverb that a lapidary who would grow rich must buy of those who go to be executed, as not caring how cheap they sell; and sell to those who go to be married, as not caring how dear they buy. [ Fuller ]
People seldom read a book which is given to them; and few are given. The way to spread a work is to sell it at a low price. No man will send to buy a thing that costs even sixpence without an intention to read it. [ Johnson ]
Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. [ Franklin ]
We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do: therefore never go abroad in search of your wants. If they be real wants, they will come home in search of you; for he that buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy. [ Caleb C. Colton ]
Authors have a greater right than any copyright, though it is generally unacknowledged or disregarded. They have a right to the reader's civility. There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it, and to these the author has a claim. Yet many people think that when they buy a book, they buy with it the right to abuse the author. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]