Sayings about buying & Shopping
Don’t buy a boat that is under water. ~ Congolese Proverb
Tell me what you want to buy and I will tell you what you are. ~ Mexican Proverb
You don’t learn anything from buying, but you do from selling. ~ Russian Proverb
Before you buy shoes, measure your feet. ~ African Proverb
You can’t buy heaven with money. ~ Maltese Proverb
The emperor is rich, but he cannot buy one extra year. ~ Chinese Proverb
There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers. ~ French Proverb
You cannot buy wisdom abroad if there is none at home. ~ Russian Proverb
Buyers are never as smart as the sellers. ~ Chinese Proverb
Do not buy either the moon or the news, for in the end they will both come out. ~ Arabian Proverb
Running and buying don’t go together — running and selling do. ~ German Proverb
A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing. ~ Jewish Proverb
He who dispraises a thing wants to buy it. ~ French Proverb
When you go to buy, don’t show your silver. ~ Chinese Proverb
When you buy beef, you buy bones; when you buy land, you buy rocks. ~ Jamaican Proverb
When a dog has money, he buys cheese. ~ Jamaican Proverb
Who buys cheap pays twice. ~ Slovak Proverb
If there are many buyers in the market, the merchant doesn’t wash his turnips. ~ Chinese Proverb
If you want to sleep well, buy the bed of a bankrupt. ~ Spanish Proverb
You can’t buy an inch of time with an inch of gold. ~ Chinese Proverb
When you have only two dollars left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a rose with the other. ~ Chinese Proverb
Choose your neighbors before you buy your house. ~ Nigerian Proverb
Sweet tongues buy horses on credit. ~ Hawaiian Proverb
A Tyrone woman will never buy a rabbit without a head for fear it’s a cat. ~ Irish Proverb
Money can buy a lot that is not even for sale. ~ Chinese Proverb
There are more fools among buyers than among sellers. ~ French Proverb
Money buys cherries. ~ Belgian Proverb
Money buys everything but good sense. ~ Yiddish Proverb
If you buy things you don’t need, you’ll soon be selling things you do. ~ Filipino Proverb
Though the emperor be rich, he cannot buy one extra year. ~ Chinese Proverb
He that finds fault wants to buy. ~ German Proverb
Do not buy with your ears but with your eyes. ~ Czech Proverb
There are more buyers than connoisseurs. ~ French Proverb
If you buy what you don’t need, you steal from yourself. ~ Swedish Proverbs
Don’t buy the house, buy the neighborhood. ~ Russian Proverbs
Nobody wants to buy a sleeping horse. ~ Mexican Proverbs
The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one. ~ Italian Proverb
If a flea had money, it would buy its own dog. ~ Jamaican Proverb
Why buy a cow when milk is so cheap? ~ Traditional Proverb
You can buy everything, except a father and a mother. ~ Tamil Proverb
Talk is cheap but it takes money to buy whiskey. ~ United States Proverb
If you buy cheap meat, you’ll smell what you have saved when it boils. ~ Arabian Proverb
When the last tree has been cut down, the last river has been polluted and the last fish has been caught — only then do you realize that money can’t buy everything: ~ Native American Proverbs
You buy yourself an enemy when you lend a man money. ~ Yiddish Proverbs
Buy on the cannons, sell on the trumpets. ~ French Proverb
When you go to buy, use your eyes not your ears. ~Czech Proverb
Buying is cheaper than asking. ~ German Proverb
Don’t buy the salt if you haven’t licked it yet. ~ Congolese Proverb
Buy from desperate people, and sell to newlyweds. ~ Spanish Proverb
Fools build houses, and wise men buy them. ~ English Proverbs
Marriage is a little bit like buying melons, you need a little luck. ~ Spanish Proverbs
Once a man has been bitten by a lion, he buys a dog. ~ Mozambican Proverb
The art of doing business lies more in paying than in buying. ~ Spanish Proverb
The sea never buys fish. ~ Turkish Proverbs
Whoever buys a house must examine the beams; whoever wants a wife must look at her mother. ~ Chinese Proverb
He who buys useless things, later sells things that he needs. ~ Japanese Proverb
IF you are buying a cow, make sure that the price of the tail is included. ~ Tamil Proverb
Don’t buy someone else’s problems. ~ Chinese Proverb
He who has not been given brains from above will not buy them at the apothecary. ~ Czech Proverbs
No one buys what he recommends himself. ~ Japanese Proverbs
If you want to buy love, love itself is the price you’ll have to pay. ~ Italian Proverbs
He who doesn’t open his eyes when he buys must still open his purse to pay. ~ Danish Proverbs
He who wants a new world must first buy the old. ~ Dutch Proverbs
When prices drop, buy. ~ Hebrew Proverb
Buying on credit is robbing next year’s crop. ~ American Proverbs
Quotations about Buying
Three things to remember about shopping are location, location, location. ~ Melinda Adams
People will buy anything that is one to a customer. ~ Sinclair Lewis
What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money. ~ Henny Youngman
Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money. ~ Author Unknown
It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.~ George S. Clason
Whoever said money can’t buy happiness simply didn’t know where to go shopping.~ Bo Derek
The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her. ~ Marcelene Cox
Money can’t buy health, happiness, or what it did last year. ~ Author Unknown
To buy happiness is to sell soul.~ Doug Horton
Shopping: The fine art of acquiring things you don’t need with money you don’t have. ~ Author Unknown
Only one shopping day left ’til tomorrow. ~ Author Unknown
For some, shopping is an art; for others, it’s a sport. It can be a vice and it can be a cause. Some love it. Some hate it. Rarely is someone indifferent. ~ Pamela Klaffke
Happiness is the cheapest thing in the world when we buy it for someone else.~ Paul Flemming
Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift…. The hangover comes the day after. ~ Joyce Brothers
Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it! ~ Freddie Mercury
A budget tells us what we can’t afford, but it doesn’t keep us from buying it. ~ William Feather
Is there more to life than shopping? ~ Amanda Ford
It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy. ~ George Horace Lorimer
If men liked shopping, they’d call it research. ~ Cynthia Nelms
Money can’t buy happiness; it can, however, rent it. ~ Author Unknown
Anyone who says money can’t buy happiness just doesn’t know where to shop. ~ Bumper Sticker
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. ~ Jean Kerr
Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home; medicine but not health; luxuries but not culture; amusements but not happiness; religion but not salvation; a passport to everywhere but heaven. ~ Author Unknown
Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy you the kind of misery you prefer. ~ Author Unknown
Buying is a profound pleasure. ~ Simone de Beauvoir
I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist. ~ Tammy Faye Bakker
Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like. ~ Will Rogers
Money can’t buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you’re being miserable. ~ Clare Boothe Luce