'Tis the season for shopping and gift giving. And everyone approaches the task a little differently. According to The Direct Marketing Association, 33 percent of shoppers finish their gift buying two weeks before the holiday, 43 percent wait until the final week to complete their shopping, and 20 percent wait right until the last minute, finishing their shopping the day before the holiday.

As well, men are more likely to procrastinate with 48 percent finishing their shopping the final week compared to 39 percent of women.

As you ponder your own approach (and the gifts you have yet to purchase!), take a moment to consider the following quotes about shopping ...

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"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."

-- Oscar Wilde

"When women are depressed, they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking."

-- Elayne Boosler

"Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy."

-- Frank Clark

"A bargain is something you can't use at a price you can't resist."

-- Franklin P. Jones

"I went to a general store but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific."

-- Steven Wright

"Shopping is better than sex. If you're not satisfied after shopping you can make an exchange for something you really like."

-- Adrienne Gusoff

"The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one."

-- Erma Bombeck

"You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy."

-- Garth Brooks

"Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position."

-- Christopher Marlowe

"The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished and put inside boxes."

-- Dave Barry