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Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately, and it gives you a lift. The hangover comes the day after. – Joyce Brothers	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It is just as impossible to help reform by conciliating prejudice as it is by buying votes. Prejudice is the enemy. Whoever is not for you is against you. – John Jay Chapman	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The subscription model of buying music is bankrupt. I think you could make available the Second Coming in a subscription model and it might not be successful. – Steve Jobs	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Whenever I get married I start buying Gourmet Magazine. – Nora Ephron	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse. – Arthur Baer	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it. – Frank Muir	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist. – Robert G. Allen	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it. – George Carlin, From his book - Brain Droppings	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents. – Arthuer Schopenhauer	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice. – Norman Augustine	added by anonymous 13 years ago
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. – P. J. O'Rourke	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions. – John Kenneth Galbraith	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying. – Fran Lebowitz	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents. – Arthur Schopenhauer	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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