Nay: but Iwill surely buy it oftheeat a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the Lord my God of that which dost cost me nothing.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Samuel 24:24.

And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Revelation13:17^18.

It is unfortunate we can't buy many business executives for whattheyare worth and sell them for whatthey think theyare worth.

-Forbes, (Malcolm Stevenson) 'Steve',Jr
Quoted in David Mahoney Confessions of aStreet-Smart Manager (1988).

   The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.

-Renoir, Pierre Auguste
From Renoir's notebook, quoted in L Nochlin Impressionism and Post-Impressionism1874^1904 (1966).

It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to makethantobuy.Thetaylordoesnot attempttomakehis ownshoe†All ofthemfind itfor their interestto employ their whole industry in a way in which they have some advantage over their neighbours and to purchase with a part of its produce†whatever else they have occasion for† What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom† Would it be a reasonable law to prohibit the importation of all foreign wines, merely to encourage the making of claret and burgundy in Scotland?

-Smith, Adam
  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of theWealth of Nations, bk.4, ch.2.

Why are you doing it? What can you buy that you can't already afford? The future, Mr Gittes, the future.

-Towne, Robert
  Chinatown.