Margaret Oliphant Quotes

When you're visiting an antiques fair, turn left once you've passed through the entrance. Everyone else will turn right, which means you can get to the bargains before them.

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

I hope I haven't spent more than $1,000 on mugs.

I'm good at finding good deals!

Cheap booze is a false economy.

This is the truth: I'm into sales. I love deals. I'm definitely a sucker for steals.

At Christmas you can get real bargains. I saw one item marked down ten dollars. It was a yacht.

Anything free costs twice as much in the long run or turns out worthless.

Every bad decision I've made has been based on money.

We always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.

Slight was the thing I bought, small was the debt I thought, Poor was the loan at best - God! but the interest!

Went to the corner shop - bought 4 corners.

the pyramids were built for pharaohs on the happy theory that they could take their stuff with them. Versailles was built for kings on the theory that they should live surrounded by the finest stuff. The Mall of America is built on the premise that we should all be able to afford this stuff. It may be a shallow culture, but it's by-God democratic. Sneer if you dare; this is something new in world history.

The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried.

My wife has a black belt in shopping.

There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

Your dollar cheeseburger isn't a dollar if you factor in what it's going to cost in health care.

Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year.

I've always been able to make erroneous decisions very quickly.

One can buy anything with money except morality.

H is for Hardware store: I'd rather go to the hardware store than the opera. And I like the opera.

Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage.

In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn't the initial cost, it's the humidity.

What, eBay isn't good enough for us?