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Quotations about Shopping
Next to the Bible and his "Guide for Mariners," Sears, Roebuck was his favorite book. ~Frances Frost, Uncle Snowball, 1940
The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966, ©Thomas Paine McLaughlin
CONSUMER From con, meaning to dupe, and Latin summa, highest. The Dupe who pays the highest price. ~Charles Wayland Towne, The Altogether New Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz, 1914
Of all the divers brands of joy that make our journey sunny, of all the bliss without alloy, there's none like spending money. It's well to put away a wad, against the rainy weather; it's well, when hard times are abroad, to have some coins together. But when you've salted down a roll of sesterces and talents, then, to invigorate your soul, go out and blow the balance. Don't let the saving habit grow, until you are a miser; salt down a part, a portion blow — that policy's the wiser. I like to toddle to the bank and put some bones in pickle; I like to save, but I'm no crank on saving every nickel. I like to take the extra plunk, and to the mart go flying, and buy a lot of useless junk, just for the sake of buying. ~Walt Mason
The other line moves faster. ~Ettorre's Observation, in John Peers, 1,001 Logical Laws..., 1979
Man thinks more of the cigar thrown in than of the box he pays for. ~"Poor Richard Junior's Philosophy," The Saturday Evening Post, 1903, George Horace Lorimer, editor
Sale Price — What something costs when it is priced only slightly above what it is worth; also what something is priced at the day after we bought it at a higher price. ~Richard E. Turner (1937–2011), The Grammar Curmudgeon, a.k.a. "The Mudge," from "The Curmudgeon's Short Dictionary of Modern Phrases," c.2009
And then you read an advertisement saying that somebody has removed thirty per cent from the price of their ties and socks and collars,
So although the ties and socks and collars you already have are still pretty clean,
Why you go in and order fifty dollars' worth because by spending fifty dollars you can save fifteen...
~Ogden Nash (1902–1971), "To Bargain, Toboggan, To-Whoo!"
One cause of poverty is too many bargains. ~"Poor Richard Junior's Philosophy," The Saturday Evening Post, 1906, George Horace Lorimer, editor
It is the bargain counter that keeps us poor. ~"Poor Richard Junior's Philosophy," The Saturday Evening Post, 1903, George Horace Lorimer, editor
Christmas is the season when you buy this year's gifts with next year's money. ~20,000 Quips & Quotes by Evan Esar, 1968
Christmas comes only once a year,
Which is lucky, I guess, for me;
For if it should come more often,
In the poorhouse I'd surely be!
Money seems to just melt away
When Christmas begins to draw near;
For, boy! I surely love to buy
For those who, to me, are so dear.
I have the best of intentions
When I go downtown to the store;
I vow I'll not spend very much,
But, oh dear, I spend more and more!
~Gertrude Tooley Buckingham, "My Christmas Troubles," 1940s
Do your Christmas shopping late so as to avoid the early rush. ~20,000 Quips & Quotes by Evan Esar, 1968
Christmas is dashing toward us at the rate of 60 seconds a minute. You have waited too late to shop early. Shop now and enjoy the rush. ~Thomas Benjamin "Tom" Sims, 1923
Ninety-Nine is a famous number
for at the market the seller knows
he is so very much more popular
than his bigger brother The Dollar!
~Terri Guillemets, "99¢," 2001
But it is a cold, lifeless business, when you go to the shops to buy me something which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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