Quotes About Value

Judging foods without regard to price is a rich mans game, and yet poor people can be gourmets able to discern a good potato from a bad one.

Clothing should be like food. There should never be a $5000 sweater. You know what should cost $5000? A car.

A couple of flitches of bacon are worth fifty thousand Methodist sermons and religious tracts. They are great softeners of temper and promoters of domestic harmony.

Beyond the shadow of a doubt, food was more important than a woman's suffering.

I don't always buy organic food. It is more expensive.

When the productive lands lose their essence, our productive lives shall least have essence!

There's never been a culture that wasn't obsessed with food. The sort of sad thing is that our obsession is no longer with food, but with the price of food.

There are many excuses for the person who made the mistake of confounding money and wealth. Like many others they mistook the sign for the thing signified.

If you count all your assets you always show a profit.

No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss, that troubles us.

My austerities, fasting and prayers are, I know, of no value if I rely upon them for reforming me. My penance is the prayer of a bleeding heart for forgiveness for sins unwittingly committed.

No one has yet had the courage to memorialize his wealth on his tombstone. A dollar mark would not look well there.

Forgiveness is not cheap even though it's free.

Poor and content is rich and rich enough.

If you would but exchange places with the other fellow how much more you could appreciate your own position.

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

The only way you can be free is to know is that you are worthwhile as a distinct human being.

When you understand that your self-worth is not determined by your net-worth, then you'll have financial freedom

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.

The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same.

I'm for freedom, which I believe is a universal value that every human being is and that is a gift from God.

Only the ideas that we really live have any value.