A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
Joseph Addison

Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge.
Sarah Vowell

After one year in the Texas League, the American League bought the rights to my contract. They optioned me back to the Texas League for the 1970 season.
Jim Evans

After the book took off, I bought a whole new wardrobe.
Terry Goodkind

All of a sudden Kevin told me that the movie got bought and was gonna be shown in a movie theatre. I was shocked. I was psyched. It was just weird.
Jason Mewes

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
Simon Cameron

And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary reasons, which is neither entertaining nor great literature.
Jerry Pournelle

And then I bought my own horse, which I had until it died.
Eric Roberts

And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold.
Richard Hovey

Anybody who knows me knows my vote can't be bought.
Judy Davis

Anyway, I went out and bought thousands of dollars worth of mature clothes so I'd look like a person to be taken seriously, instead of a pretty little twit.
Shelley Duvall

As soon as I began to earn what might be called fairly large sums, I bought a car and began to explore the country around New York.
Kate Smith

Baldwin is sort of getting to be a bit funny. I don't know what happened, but a few years ago they suddenly went bankrupt and Gibson bought the whole outfit. Since then they haven't seemed to be doing an awfully good job of providing pianos.
Marian McPartland

But as a result of that, there was, once the show ended, there was this talk for sort of four, five months about what was going to happen, and if we were going to move to Showtime, and if we were going to be bought by ABC or whatever.
Will Arnett

But I also like to shower my parents with presents. I bought them a beautiful car and a house.
Eva Herzigova

But I've got a lot of ideas, I bought me a ranch in Florida and I still have my farm in Ashland City, Tennessee so I'm gonna spend a little time at each one of those places and you'll probably hear some more songs out of me.
Mel Tillis

But in 1941, on December 8th, after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, my mother bought a radio and we listened to the war news. We'd not had a radio up to that time. I was born in 1934, so I was seven years of age.
Sam Donaldson

But the manager's bought wisely - the players who've come in have taken us on to a different level and the players who won promotion have also performed at the top level, so long may it continue.
Teddy Sheringham

But we actually has bought a house in America as well, which is mainly at the moment a holiday home.
John Deacon