Quotes About Cost

I think it is childish for men to joke about women's clothes, to make fun of our hats, to complain over the cost of a good fur coat.

Free is never Worth it

The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.

There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country really needs is a good five-cent nickel.

Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.

when the cost of believing a false pattern is real is less than the cost of believing the genuine pattern, natural selection will favor the false pattern.

We have become so used to the occupier's contempt and his determination to maintain his stranglehold, whatever the cost, that any semblance of generosity or any sign of goodwill is greeted with surprise and jubilation.

Well, because I have twin seven-year-old boys, I enjoy the gift giving stuff a great deal. We do both Hanukkah and Christmas, so it is a costly, though extremely pleasing proposition.

I know the exploding cost of health care is at the root of our long-term fiscal challenges.

Men may not get all they pay for in this world; but they must certainly pay for all they get.

It is not a cheap commodity, love. Some of us can have it and never face the bill, but only if someone else picks up the check.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

In our hatred, we are like bees who must pay with their lives for the use of their stingers

We all have to pay till the day we die, just to breathe the air and exist in this world."

and are paying a heavy price for losing.

Wszystko kosztuje - odrzek? Ham - Ale czym s? pieni?dze? Fizyczn? interpretacj? abstrakcyjnej koncepcji wysi?ku.

Everything costs money," Ham said. "But, what is money? A physical representation of the abstract concept of effort.

He could teach his students nothing. He was only educating himself at their cost.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

The true price of anything you do is the amount of time you exchange for it.

If it is asserted that civilization is a real advance in the condition of man — and I think that it is, though only the wise improve their advantages — it must be shown that it has produced better dwellings without making them more costly; and the cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

They make their pride, he said, in making their dinner cost much; I make my pride in making my dinner cost little. When asked at table what dish he preferred, he answered, The nearest.

The practical objection to animal food in my case was its uncleanness; and besides, when I had caught and cleaned and cooked and eaten my fish, they seemed not to have fed me essentially. It was insignificant and unnecessary, and cost more than it came to. A little bread or a few potatoes would have done as well, with less trouble and filth.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it