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Quotations
 | Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 11 likes |
 | The Law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it. — Isaac Asimov, 1920-1992, American Sci-Fi writer 11 likes |
 | Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 5 likes |
 | Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. — Marilyn Monroe, 1926-1962, American actress 5 likes |
 | What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 4 likes |
 | Only a fool thinks price and value are the same. — Antonio Machado, 1875-1939, Spanish poet & playwright 4 likes |
 | Life is a business that does not cover the costs. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 3 likes |
 | What we pay for with our lives never costs too much. — Antonio Porchia, 1885-1968, Italian-Argentinian poet 3 likes |
 | To achieve success, whatever the job we have, we must pay a price. — Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970, American football coach 3 likes |
 | Heaven is a cheap Purchase whatever it cost. — Dr. Thomas Fuller, 1654-1734, English physician and adage collector 3 likes |
 | What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of living high. — Doug Larson, 1926-2017, American columnist 3 likes |
 | There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: make the best quality goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible. — Henry Ford, 1863-1947, American industrialist, founder of FORD 2 likes |
 | There is no more expensive thing than a free gift. — Michel de Montaigne, 1533-1592, French thinker 2 likes |
 | The poor man's price of admittance to the favor of the rich is his self-respect. — Ambrose Bierce, 1842–1914, American writer 2 likes |
 | The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. — Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862, American writer 2 likes |
 | Whatever the heart desires, it purchases at the cost of soul. — Lawrence Durrell, 1912-1990, British writer 2 likes |
 | I don’t know which is worse: that everyone has his price, or that the price is always so low. — Bill Watterson, 1958-, American cartoonist 2 likes |
 | I am the only child of parents who weighed, measured, and priced everything; for whom what could not be weighed, measured, and priced, had no existence. — Charles Dickens, 1812-1870, British writer 2 likes |
 | Anything that just costs money is cheap. |
 | Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world. |
 | Better to be cheated by the price than by the merchandise. |
 | And as in other things, so in men, not the seller, but the buyer determines the Price. |
 | If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation do you prefer the grain to the vote? |
 | God sells us all things at the price of labor. |
 | Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society. |
 | The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive. |
 | The greatest price you can pay for anything is asking for it. |
 | The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty. |
 | Freedom still exists. You just have to pay the price. |
 | During a siege, a young man carrying two buckets of water shouted: “six coins for a bucket of water!” A bomb fell and destroyed a bucket. “Twelve coins for a bucket of water!” the young man continued undisturbed. |
 | True happiness costs little; if it is expensive, it is not of a good kind. — François-René de Chateaubriand, 1768-1848, French poet & politician |
 | A shortage is a sign that somebody is keeping the price artificially lower than it would be if supply and demand were allowed to operate freely. |
Latin Quotes
 | Everything with a price. Omnia cum pretio. — Juvenal, 1st-2nd cent. AD, Roman satiric poet 29 likes |
Funny Quotes
 | I was walking through the woods, thinking about Christ. If He was a carpenter, I wondered what He charged for bookshelves. — Woody Allen, 1935-, American actor & film director 3 likes |
Proverbs
 | You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs. 5 likes |
 | If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. 4 likes |
 | There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. 3 likes |
| The best things in life are free. 3 likes |
 | The cheapest is always the most expensive. 2 likes |
