Who buys land, buys war. [ Italian Proverb ]

Friendship buys friendship. [ Emerson ]

He buys very dear who begs. [ Portuguese Proverb ]

A penny more buys the whistle. [ Proverb ]

He who buys requires an hundred eyes. [ Italian Proverb ]

He that buys magistracy must sell justice. [ Proverb ]

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything. [ M. Wortley Montagu ]

Gold that buys health can never be ill spent.
Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment. [ John Webster ]

Who buys has need of an hundred eyes;
But one is enough to him that sells the stuff. [ Proverb ]

He that buys and lies, shall feel it in his purse. [ Proverb ]

In love the heavens themselves do guide the state;
Money buys lands, and wives are sold by fate. [ William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act V. Sc. 5 ]

Who always buys and sells feels not what he spends. [ Proverb ]

He that gives customarily to the vulgar buys trouble. [ Proverb ]

He who buys what he cannot pay for, sells what he fain would not. [ Italian Proverb ]

He that buys what he does not want, must often sell what he does want. [ Proverb ]

The French have a significant saying, that a woman who buys her complexion will sell it. [ Tuckerman ]

The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already. [ Simms ]

It is gold which buys admittance; and it is gold which makes the true man killed, and saves the thief: nay, sometimes hangs both thief and true man; what can it not do and undo? [ William Shakespeare ]

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 ]