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| Buy the bed of a great debtor. Italian. | 1 |
| Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessaries. Franklin. | 2 |
| Buy when it is market time. German. | 3 |
| Buy your greyhound, don’t rear him. Portuguese. | 4 |
| Buy your neighbor’s ox and woo your neighbor’s daughter. German. | 5 |
| Buyers and sellers dispute over a single cash. Chinese. | 6 |
| Buyers are esteemed, good men dross are deemed. Chinese. | 7 |
| Buying a thing too dear is no bounty. | 8 |
| Buying and selling is but winning and losing. | 9 |
| Buying fresh fish and vegetables, examine them first, then fix the price. Chinese. | 10 |
| He who disparages wants to buy. French, Italian, German, Spanish. | 11 |
| Do not buy a red-haired person; do not sell one either, if you have one in the house, drive him away. Turkish. | 12 |
| Do not buy of a huckster or be negligent at an inn. Spanish. | 13 |
| Don’t buy a cat in a bag. German, Dutch. | 14 |
| Don’t buy a pig in a poke. | 15 |
| Don’t buy everything that’s cheap, and you’ll escape being taken in. Chinese. | 16 |
| He buys well who is not called a donkey. Spanish. | 17 |
| He that buys by the pennyworth keeps his own house and another man’s. Italian. | 18 |
He that buys lawn before he can fold it,
Shall repent him before he has sold it. | 19 |
| He who buys a house gets many a plank and nail for nothing. German. | 20 |
| He who buys betimes buys cheaply. Italian. | 21 |
| He who buys the broom can also buy the handle. Italian. | 22 |
| He who buys what he don’t want will sell what he does want. Italian, German. | 23 |
| It is good to buy when another wants to sell. Italian. | 24 |
| It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer, but when he is gone his way then he boasteth. Bible. | 25 |
| No man buys yams while they are yet in the ground. Tropics. | 26 |
| There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers. | 27 |
| They buy gude cheap that bring naething hame. | 28 |
| When you buy genuine articles, and you must lose, lose as little as possible. Chinese. | 29 |
| When you buy one fine thing you must buy ten more that your appearance may be all of a piece. | 30 |
| Who always buys and sells, feels not what he spends. | 31 |
| Who buys had need of eyes, but one’s enough to sell the stuff. | 32 |
Who buys wants a hundred eyes;
Who sells need have but one. Dutch. | 33 |
| Who buys without discretion buys to sell. Martial. | 34 |
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