Quotes About Barter

but something was given in exchange for what was lost

Poetry is mother-tongue of the human race; as gardening is older than agriculture; painting than writing; song than declamation; parables,—than deductions; barter,—than trade.

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race; just as gardening is older than the cultivated field; painting than writing; song than declamation; parables than syllogisms; barter than trade

All government—indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act—is founded on compromise and barter.

Buying and selling is essentially antisocial.

Everyone has a price — mine is chocolate.

I got a sewing machine for my husband! Good trade, huh?

I saw a boy of the crew purchasing javelins of them with bits of platters and broken glass.

As the savage progresses, he acquires experience and formulates codes of 'right' and 'wrong' from his memories of those courses which have helped or hurt him... Then out of the principle of barter comes the illusion of 'justice' ...

marriage nothing but a lugubrious barter with slavery as its upshot.

You don't get anything without giving up something.

Giving up something for something else is commerce; giving up something for nothing is a sacrifice.

For I belong to the sunlight, This I would not barter for any kingdom.

And thus came in the use of money, some lasting thing that men might keep without spoiling, and that by mutual consent men would take in exchange for the truly useful, but perishable supports of life.

With the breakdown of money economy the practice of international barter is becoming prevalent.

For the various necessaries of life are not easily carried about, and hence men agreed to employ in their dealings with each other something which was intrinsically useful and easily applicable to the purposes of life, for example, iron, silver, and the like. Of this the value was at first measured by size and weight, but in process of time they put a stamp upon it, to save the trouble of weighing and to mark the value.

The point is this: when you make even swaps, concentrate not on the importance of the objectives but on the importance of the amounts in question.

Just that mere existence is not enough. One exists by barter. One lives by giving – and taking.

asked. 'Just that mere existence is not enough. One exists by barter. One lives by giving – and taking.' 'I

furs, walrus tusks ('fish teeth'), slaves, wax, honey, amber.

We had a great many horses, of which we gave Lewis and Clark what they needed, and they gave us guns and tobacco in return.

There were not many people who could say that their education had been paid for with cigarettes.

People in markets find a way of getting down to the essentials of I have, you want; you have, I want.

It was like him, too, to love her and admit to it before he knew if she loved him. Maybe only mortals expected to barter their hearts.