Cheap Things Quotes

• I am a great believer in high-priced people. If a thing cost a lot it may not be any better, but it adds a certain amount of class that the cheap thing can never approach; in the long run it's the higher-priced things that are the cheapest.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Business, Class

  Will Rogers (1977). “Letters of a self-made diplomat to his President”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• Life? Bah! It has no value. Of cheap things it is the cheapest. Everywhere it goes begging. Nature spills it out with a lavish hand. Where there is room for one life, she sows a thousand lives, and it's life eats life till the strongest and most piggish life is left.

  Jack London

  Life, Hands, Rooms

  Jack London (2016). “The Sea-Wolf (Diversion Classics)”, p.64, Diversion Books

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• Here, in Alethkar, men often spoke of the legends -- of mankind's hard-won victory over the Voidbringers. But when weapons created to fight nightmares were turned against common soldiers, the lives of men became cheap things indeed.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Fighting, Men, Soldier

  Brandon Sanderson (2009). “Warbreaker”, p.668, Macmillan

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• If you love the good thing vitally, enough to give up for it all that one must give up, then you must hate the cheap thing just as hard. I tell you, there is such a thing as creative hate!
  “A contempt that drives you through fire, makes you risk everything and lose everything, makes you a long sight better than you ever knew you could be.

  Willa Cather

  Giving Up, Hate, Fire

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Essential Willa Cather Collection”, p.1481, eBookIt.com

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• You must hold hard to life and do it. But life is a cheap thing beside a man's work. The only thing is that you need it. Hold it tight.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Men, Needs, Life Is

  Ernest Hemingway (1970). “Islands in the stream”, Scribner Book Company

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• Happiness is, in truth, a very cheap thing, when the heart will be contented to traffic with nature - art has quite a different price.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Happiness, Art, Different

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1835). “Traits of American Life”, p.216

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• I cannot always sympathize with that demand which we hear so frequently for cheap things. Things may be too cheap. They are too cheap when the man or woman who produces them upon the farm or the man or woman who produces them in the factory does not get out of them living wages with a margin for old age and for a dowry for the incidents that are to follow. I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth or shapes it into a garment will starve in the process.

  Benjamin Harrison

  Men, Age, Doe

  "Rain Still Follows Him: The President's Vermont Trip Marked by Storms". Speech in Rutland, Vermont, reported in The New York Times, August 29, 1891 issue p. 5,

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• At the worst possible moment, when your fund is down because cheap things have gotten cheaper, you need to have capital, to have clients who will actually love the phone call and-most of the time, if not all the time-add, rather than subtract, capital.

  Seth Klarman

  Phones, Add, Needs

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