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Quotes About Price

What you get free costs too much.
~ Jean Anouilh
Fortune is like the market, where many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
~ Francis Bacon
There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.
~ Shirley Chisholm
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
~ Graham Greene
In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever.
~ Willa Cather
The price of wisdom is above rubies.
~ Bible
Different types of chicken come at different price points. Filets are going to be more expensive. If it's bone-in and skin-on it's going to be less expensive.
~ Sandra Lee
Human attention tends to be focused on the satisfactions relationships are hoped to bring, precisely because somehow they have not been truly satisfactory. And if they do satisfy, the price of this satisfaction has often been found to be unacceptable.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
~ E. O. Wilson
A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy? I contend that a bargain even between brethren is a declaration of war.
~ Lord Byron
I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima - and you know, is the price worth it?
~ Lesley Stahl
In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
~ Charles de Gaulle
No price is too great to preserve the health of the fleet.
~ John B. Jervis
For instance, one of the costs of the war is that soldiers today get very seriously injured but stay alive, and we can keep them alive but at an enormous price.
~ Joseph Stiglitz
The price works so well, so efficiently, that we are not aware of it most of the time.
~ Milton Friedman
The unchangeable price of everything more precious and valuable is blood.
~ Auliq Ice
Enemies, ' the wizard said, 'are the price of honour.
~ Terry Goodkind, Debt of Bones
Your souls are precious and can only be equal to the price of Paradise, therefore sell them only at that price
~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
The wise man knows the only fitting price for his soul is a place in Paradise.
~ Ibn Hazm
Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold... has its natural and its market price.
~ David Ricardo
Age is a hell of a price to pay for wisdom.
~ George Carlin
Were wisdom to be sold, she would give no price; every man is satisfied with the share he has from nature.
~ Henry Home, Lord Kames
We pay a high price for intelligence. Wisdom hurts.
~ Euripides
If the price is high, that doesn't mean that it isn't worth paying. We've the freedom of the universe, and it's a fascinating universe. You'll see much that's good, and you'll never be faced with boredom. And there are great satisfactions. If we can save the people of this world from slavery, for instance
~ Sylvia Engdahl