quotations about bargains
Lest the bargain should catch cold and starve.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Cymbeline
Every bargain we made was chewed over carefully before it was swallowed. Each one seemed like the best choice at the time, and yet it seemed that we swallowed enough unwholesome things to bring us down to the very edge of death.
ALTER S. REISS
Sunset Mantle
It is a silly bargain where nobody gains.
THOMAS FULLER
Gnomologia
Necessity never made a good bargain.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack
The person who does not ask will never get a bargain.
FRENCH PROVERB
My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
letter to Joshua Speed, February 25, 1842
A bargain is a bargain, and must stand without all exception.
THOMAS WILSON
Arte of Rhetorique
A bargain is something you don't need at a price you can't resist.
FRANKLIN JONES
attributed, Dictionary of Humourous Quotations
If you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you. Is that a bargain?
LEWIS CARROLL
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
A bargain is anything you can buy today at yesterday's prices.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Don't bargain for fish that are still in the water.
FRENCH PROVERB
This is the age of bargain hunters. If it had been this way in biblical times, we'd probably have been offered another Commandment free if we had accepted the first ten.
EARL WILSON
Reader's Digest, 1978
A bargain is when two people are sure they got the better of each other.
E.C. MCKENZIE
14,000 Quips and Quotes
The bargain is not a bargain, or what was not a bargain is a bargain, just as you please.
PLAUTUS
Aulularia
A bargain ain't a bargain unless it's something you need.
SIDNEY CARROLL
attributed, The Biteback Dictionary of Humorous Business Quotations
Purchases that seem like unbelievable bargains are usually not the bargains they appear to be.
GARY ALTHERN
American Ways
Bargain like a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.
HUNGARIAN PROVERB
Here's the rule for bargains: "Do other men, for they would do you." That's the true business precept.
CHARLES DICKENS
The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction ... do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy? I contend that a bargain even between brethren is a declaration of war.
LORD BYRON
letter to Kinnaird, July 14, 1821
It takes two to make a bargain.
AMERICAN PROVERB