Quotes About Value

There is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

I am convinced it is a mistake to find an artist human outside his work. If you cannot find him human in and through his work, you are better not to know it when you come to formulate an opinion of his public value.

A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.

Beauty is potent but money is omnipotent.

I'm tired of all the nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want - an adorable pancreas?

The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope diamond.

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.

The writings of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.

Every man has his price.

The universe would not be rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man.

It is naught, it is naught; saith the buyer. But when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.

Who buys has need of two eyes But one's enough to sell the stuff.

Bargain: something you can't use at a price you can't resist.

Don't buy the house; buy the neighborhood.

A fair price for oil is whatever you can get plus ten to twenty per cent.

An extravagance is anything you buy that is of no earthly use to your wife.

What costs nothing is worth nothing.

Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man can't make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.