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.