Quotes About Barter

That's a great trade. I'd trade myself for Kevin Garnett.

En kärlek med villkor är ju handel.

he gave a thousand measures of the wine for trading, so the troops could barter for it, some with bronze and some with shining iron, others with hides and others still with oxen, some with slaves. They made a copious feast, and all night long Akhaians with flowing hair feasted, while the Trojans and their allies likewise made a feast.

Trade is nothing else but a Commutation of Superfluities; for instance: I give mine, what I can spare, for somewhat of yours, which I want, and you can spare.

The science of loving, yes, that's the only kind of science I want I'd barter away everything I possess to win it.

I see love as a force of nature. No matter how much you want to, you cannot control or demand love. No one can. It cannot be bought, bartered, or sold. It is priceless.

and since most people had little to barter with, they usually bartered with a promise of something to eat tomorrow or the next day in exchange for something to eat today, a bartering not so much of different goods, exactly, but of

Quid pro quo.» «Quid pro che?» «Latino, ragazzo. Non esistono lingue morte ma solo cervelli in letargo.»

As a side note: I thought money was a bad idea way back when it was first invented. I remember the moment very clearly. This guy owed me a sheep, but instead of giving me an actual sheep he gave me five coins he said were worth the same as a sheep. "But I can't eat round pieces of metal, asshole," were my exact words.)

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

It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services.

Almost all of our relationships begin, and most of them continue, as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of war.

GAS, GRASS, OR ASS. NOBODY RIDES FOR FREE.

It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.

One currency can be swapped for another at whatever rate two parties are willing to make a voluntary trade.

At one stop in New Zealand, an Englishman bartered for sex. He was presented with a boy; when he complained, he was presented with another. The English related this incident with amusement, as a cruel joke. But the Maori may have supposed that homosexuality was the English norm. How else to account for the absence among them of women and children?

Trade is the mother of money.

A quarter for the berry, three quarters for the delivery

We could end up in prison married to the guy with the most cigarettes.

hesitated to trade

A bruxis. That was the one wish more powerful than a gavriel, and its trade value was singular: The only way to purchase one was with one's own teeth. All of them, self-extracted.

Para obtener del universo, debes entregar algo a cambio

Outlawing the sale or barter of women marked Genghis Khan's first important departure from tribal practices regarding marriage, and gradually through a series of such changes he transformed the social position of his daughters, and thereby of all women, within his burgeoning empire.