Subject: Activities » Shopping

If you go to Bed Bath & Beyond without a coupon, people will wonder if you’re OK.

(1964 – 2014) American actor, Broadway performer & stand-up comedian

At a bargain sale, the only suit or dress that you like best and that fits you is the one not in the sale.

The customer is always ripe.

Bargain: A transaction in which each party thinks he has cheated the other.

The candy bar you planned to eat on the way home from the market is hidden at the bottom of the grocery bag.

If you ask your husband to pick up five items at the store and then you add one more as an afterthought, he will forget two of the first five.

If you don't write to complain, you'll never receive your order. If you do write, you'll receive the merchandise before your angry letter reaches its destination.

Now what I don't get are these people who, instead of buying a four-pack or an eight-pack of toilet paper, they buy the single individual roll; are you trying to quit?

comedian

I’ve read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.

(1882 – 1942) American actor

If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

You ever go shopping for a really cute, little, sexy black dress – and you come home with an extra-large pepperoni pizza?


A necessary item goes on sale only after you have purchased it at the regular price.

One of the most difficult things in the world is to convince a woman that even a bargain costs money.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor

In America, it's not how much an item costs, it's how much you save.

If women dressed for men, the stores wouldn't sell much – just an occasional sun visor.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

Our culture teaches us to buy things we don't need, with money we don't have, to impress people we don't like.

(1946 – 2007) American entrepreneur

Futon World – a wonderful place that becomes slowly less comfortable over time.

(1973 – ) American comedian

You might be a redneck if… the Home Shopping operator recognizes your voice.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

Thank God we’re living in a country where the sky’s the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.

(1935 – 2014) American comedian, television personality, writer & director

The one you want is never the one on sale.

I ask myself questions in those stores I don't ask myself anywhere else, like, 'Will I live long enough to use all those paper towels?'

American comedian & musician