Quotes About Exchange

All commodities, as values, are realized human labours.

y, en términos generales, advertiréis, frente a un enorme aumento de valor no sólo de las mercancías, sino también en general de las operaciones en dinero, una tendencia a la disminución progresiva de los medios de pago.

Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction: if it could be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange! How differently the world would men behold!

Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash.

Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.

Where men cannot freely convey their thoughts to one another, no other liberty is secure.

No man pays double or twice for the same thing, forasmuch as nothing can be spent but once.

Converse, converse, CONVERSE, with living men, face to face, mind to mind-that is one of the best sources of knowledge.

A man can well afford to be as bold as brass, my good fellow, when he gets gold in exchange!

What men call friendship is no more than a partnership, a mutual care of interests, an exchange of favors - in a word, it is a sort of traffic, in which self-love ever proposes to be the gainer.

The ability to mingle with so many countries and cultures is extremely valuable for men and women.

You must think I am a high-priced man.... Fifteen dollars is enough for the job. I send you a receipt for fifteen dollars, and return to you a ten-dollar bill.

Man, an animal that makes bargains.

What men call friendship is only social intercourse, an exchange of favours and good offices; it comes down to a commercial dealing in which self-esteem always expects to profit.

Get money - but stop once in a while to figure what it is costing you to get it. No man gets it without giving something in return. The wise man gives his labor and ability. The fool gives his life.

If you want to give a man something practical, consider tires. More than once, I would have gladly traded all the gifts I got for a new set of tires.

Whatever men live for, today most live only because of the market order.

In times of panic man seems to exchange his soul for a tail.

I have known men who have been sold and bought a hundred times, who have only got very fat and very comfortable in the process of exchange.

I quote another man's saying; unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.

It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse.

MEN, Charlene said. Leave that to you! Willa quipped.

I wasn't sure exactly how prostitutes determined price, but if men bought hookers by the pound, these two would be doing okay.

Take gifts with a sigh: most men give to be paid.