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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON COST
What you get free costs too much.
Jean Anouilh (1910-1987, French playwright)
The gods sell to us all the goods which they give us.
Epicharmus (c.540-450 BC, Greek philosopher)
Expenditures rise to meet income.
C. Northcote Parkinson (1909-1993, British historian, political scientist, formulator of Parkinson's Law)
A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.
John Ruskin (1819-1900, British critic, social theorist)
Why so large a cost, having so short a lease, does thou upon your fading mansion spend?
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life, which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
Something you don't want is dear at any price.
Author Unknown
The gods sell all things at a fair price.
Author Unknown
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