quotations about bargains
Bargains are fine things, but a business conducted entirely on bargains is liable to be in the hands of the sheriff early in its history.
TWIN CITY COMMERCIAL BULLETIN
Trade: A Journal for Retail Merchants, 1909
The timely buyer Hath cheaper his fire.
THOMAS TUSSER
Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry
A good bargain is a pick-purse.
GEORGE HERBERT
Jacula Prudentum
Suspense was an excellent tool for keeping powerful people off balance. It gave one bargaining power.
ROBIN HOBB
City of Dragons
Never trade a secret. You'll always get the short end of the bargain.
JOHN LE CARRE
The Mission Song
There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
ANATOLE FRANCE
attributed, The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations