Quotes About Sale

Simony was an abuse of long standing. The term is derived from the name of Simon the magician who tried to buy the gift of the Holy Spirit from the apostles. It meant in particular the purchase and sale of church offices, and might more broadly refer to the acquisition of such offices by unworthy persons or by any improper methods, and to almost any corruption or "graft" in the Church.

Having once been so high, humanity fell so low. What had once been dedicated to the soul was now dedicated to the sale.

It was emotional when Chrysler sold out to the Germans.

The well-satisfied customer will bring the repeat sale that counts.

For Sale: One heart. Horrible condition. Will take anything for it. Please. Just cut it out on my chest and end the suffering.

windows crowded with useless crap. Beeswax candles, leftover Christmas decorations at fifty percent off, a notice for a book signing by Trippton's favorite author, which had happened three days earlier, and a sun-browned sign that said, "Explore Your Home Scent

He could have used the cash. The new light topcoats for the coming season were hip-length, and he'd seen the perfect example at Neiman Marcus: six hundred fifty dollars, on sale, with a wool lining.

The sale of souls to gain the whole world is completely voluntary and almost unanimous...but not quite.

Fear and greed are probably the worst emotions to have in connection with the purchase and sale of stocks.

To the detached observer there is this attraction about these perfect resemblances between pairs of twins, that nature, becoming for the moment industrialised, seems to be offering a pattern for sale.

The ad in the paper said 'Big Sale. Last Week.' Why advertise? I already missed it. They're just rubbing it in.

Leo's profligacy as patron and builder, which kept him perpetually strapped for cash, lay behind his authorization of the sale of indulgences in Germany, against which Luther's Ninety-Five Theses was such a forceful protest.

This one commercial said, "Forget everything you know about slipcovers." So I did, and it was a load off of my mind. Then the commercial tried to sell slipcovers, but I didn't know what they were!

When did you get that?""The shirt? At Macy's. Winter sale.

He that tries to recommend (Shakespeare) by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in "Hierocles", who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen

Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

I sold my house this week. I got a pretty good price for it, but it made my landlord mad as hell.

Have you heard about the Irishman who reversed into a car boot sale and sold the engine?

Did you buy your pants on sale? Cause in my room they'd be 100% off.

You cant put a price tag on love. But if you could, I'd wait for it to go on sale

For Sale: Parachute. Only used once, never opened, small stain.

I sold him the house, if you want to know." "Maybe I'll buy it back, when I sell my screenplay.

A cow is an Earth-dwelling animal, a domesticated and multipurpose ungulate, which humans treat as a one-stop shop for food, liquid refreshment, fertilizer, and designer footwear. The humans farm it and cut its throat and then cut it up and package it and refrigerate it and sell it and cook it.

He wanted to bend her over the dining table and ravish her. Or the desk, or one of the twenty beds, or any piece of furniture, really. The sooner the better, too, since every last stitch of furniture would likely need to be sold.