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One man's wage rise is another man's price increase.

—Wilson of Rievaulx, (James) Harold Wilson, Baron

At last America is in my view; a dreary waste of white barren sand, and melancholy, nodding pines. In the course of many miles, no cheerful cottage has blest my eyes. All seems dreary, savage and desert; and was it for this such sums of money, such streams of British blood have been lavished away? Oh, thou dear land, how dearly hast thou purchased this habitation for bears and wolves. Dearly has it been purchased, and at a price far dearer still it will be kept. My heart dies within me, while I view it.

—Schaw,Janet   b.c.1730

Pange, lingua, gloriosi Corporis mysterium, Sanguinisque pretiosi, Quem in mundi pretium Fructus ventris generosi Rex effudit gentium. Now, my tongue, the mystery telling Of the glorious Body sing, And the Blood, all price excelling, Which the Gentiles' Lord and King, In aVirgin's womb once dwelling, Shed for this world's ransoming.

—Aquinas, StThomas

   Nay: but Iwill surely buy it oftheeat a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the Lord my God of that which dost cost me nothing.

—Bible (Old Testament)

They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn't name its price.

—Greene, (Henry) Graham

Poor lawyers, like poor paintings, are dear at any price. 902

—Whistler,James (Abbott) McNeill

And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Julia: how Irishly you sacrifice Love to pity, pity to ill-humour, Yourself to love, still haggling at the price.

—Graves, Robert von Ranke

If blood be the price of admiralty Lord God, we ha'paid in full!

—Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard

All those men have their price.

—Walpole, Sir Robert, 1st Earl of Orford

It isnot to be understood that the natural price of labour, estimated even in food and necessaries, is absolutely fixed and constant.It varies at different times in thesame countryand very materially differs in different countries. It essentially depends on the habits and customs of the people.

—Ricardo, David

The natural price of labour is that price which is necessary to enable the labourers, one with another, to subsist and to perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution.

—Ricardo, David

Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.

—Huxley, Aldous Leonard

Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Today I see more clearly than yesterday that back of the problem of race and color, lies a greater problem which both obscures and implements it: and that isthefact that so many civilized persons are willing to live in comfort even if the price of this is poverty, ignorance and disease of the majority of their fellowmen; that to maintain this privilege men have waged war until today war tends to become universal and continuous, and the excuse for this war continues largely to be color and race.

—Du Bois,W(illiam) E(dward) B(urghardt)

A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

—Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills

I sometimes think the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

—Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair

In every case, agricultural as well as manufacturing profits are lowered bya rise in the price of raw produce, if it be accompanied bya rise of wages_ The natural tendency of profits istofall; for inthe progress of society and wealth, the additional quantity of food required is obtained by the sacrifice of more and more labour.

—Ricardo, David

How do you put a price on the Washington Monument?

—Kennedy, Roger George

   PERSONALITY TITHE: A price paid for becoming a couple; previously amusing human beings become boring: 'Thanks for inviting us, but Noreen and I are going to look at flatware catalogs tonight. Afterward we're going to watch the shopping channel.'

—Coupland, Douglas

The price that the market sets on the services of our resources is similarlyaffected bya bewildering mixture of chance and choice. Frank Sinatra's voice was highly valued intwentieth-century United States.Would it have been highly valued in twentieth-century India, if he had happened to be born and to live there?

—Friedman, Milton

The price was quite reasonable. It just happened to be a lot of money.

—Merrin, Edward H

The ordinary 'horseless-carriage' is at present a luxury for the wealthy; and although the price will probably fall in the future, it will never, of course, come into as common use as the bicycle.

—Anonymous

Thereal priceofeverything, whateverything reallycosts to themanwho wants to acquire it, isthetoil and trouble of acquiring it. Labour was the first price, the original purchase money that was paid for all things.

—Smith, Adam

A real, honest, old-fashioned Boarding-school, where a reasonable quantity of accomplishments were sold at a reasonable price, and where girlsmight be sent to be out of the wayand scramblethemselves into a little education, without any danger of coming back prodigies.

—Austen,Jane

If a man bring to London an ounce of Silver out of the Earth in Peru in the same time that he can produce a bushel of Corn, then one isthe natural price of the other.

—Petty, Sir William

What Price Glory?

—Anderson, Maxwell

Icannot help itthat my paintings donot sell.Thetimewill come when people will see that they are worth more than the price of the paint.

—van Gogh,Vincent

The value, or worth of a man, is as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power.

—Hobbes,Thomas