Quotes About Exchange

Getting married is like trading in the adoration of many for the sarcasm of one.

There are two kinds of marriages, Benny — where the husband quotes the wife, or where the wife quotes the husband.

Antagonistic cooperation is the principle of all markets and many marriages.

Love is giving, marriage is buying and selling. You can't put love into a contract.

Communication is the most important single activity of man.

This is a hurried age we're living in. If you've got anything to say, say it quickly, get to the point and stop, and give the other man a chance to talk.

Give every man more in use value than you take from him in cash value; then you are adding to the life of the world by every business transaction

When a man offers you his soul, do you give him change?

Morse code didn't leave a paper trail, or an email thread on the screen of your tablet. She would never be able to scroll back and reread the exchange she'd just had with Rufus.

Gold is the corpse of value

Actually, they have not been talking so much as mentioning certain ideas and then leaving the other to work through the implications. This is a highly efficient way to communicate;

You would give and share automatically, and so, there would be far fewer contracts to break, because a contract is about the exchange of goods and services, whereas your life would be about the giving of goods and services, regardless of what exchange may or may not take place. Yet in this kind of one-way giving would your salvation be found, for you would have discovered what God has experienced: that what you give to another, you give to your Self. What goes around, comes around.

Up next is Noelle. 'Hey, girl!' 'Don't you dare start calling me that. This is very nice of you to do.

Science needs the light of free expression to flourish. It depends on the fearless questioning of authority, and the open exchange of ideas.

We talked for a half hour, and they supplicated to me the whole time.

money was commoditized labour

The Amsterdam Exchange Bank (Wisselbank) was set up in 1609 to resolve the practical problems created for merchants by the circulation of multiple currencies in the United Provinces, where there were no fewer than fourteen different mints and copious quantities of foreign coins.

The nature of men is such that they find themselves obligated as much for the benefits they confer as for those they receive.

The nature of man is such that people consider themselves put under an obligation as much by the benefits they confer as by those they receive. (p.73)

The language of trade is, after all, perforce that of the customer, rather than of the merchant.

I'd bite off the Beatles, or anybody else. It's all one world, one planet and one groove. You're supposed to learn from each other, blend from each other, and it moves around like that.

Museums do not share their collections with other museums unless they get something in exchange. The Metropolitan will deal with the Louvre, but will they send their stuff to Memphis? No.

There is always a musical exchange happening between me and my sons.

Because it appears to me a hazardous thing to exchange my soul for my shadow.