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Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887.

Bargain

A bargain is a bargain.

A good bargain is a pick purse.

A man loseth his time that comes early to a bad bargain.

Bargains are costly.German, Spanish.

Bargaining is as necessary to a trade as poleing to a vessel.Chinese.

Good cheap is dear at long run.

He who hunts after bargains will scratch his head.Catalan.

It is a bad bargain where both are losers.

It is a silly bargain where nobody gets.

It is only good bargains that ruin.

It takes two to make a bargain.

Make the best of a bad bargain.

Many have been ruined by buying good pennyworths.

More words than one go to a bargain.

No one will get a bargain he does not ask for.French.

On a good bargain think twice.

One word will not settle a bargain, though prices vary from morning to night.Chinese.

They spit upon the same stone. (A custom practised in the north of England when concluding a bargain.)

Twa words maun gang to that bargain.