Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne; for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money; they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity.
What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.
For the record? I have never been her baby. In fact, I reject the notion of coming out of her body. I prefer to believe I was hatched, or perhaps purchased.
Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
If Athens shall appear great to you, consider then that her glories were purchased by valiant men, and by men who learned their duty.
Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.
Other things may be seized by might, or purchased with money, but knowledge is to be gained only by study, and study to be prosecuted only in retirement.
The only two people who can give you real feedback about your product are people who just purchased it and people who have just canceled.
The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale.
Purchased experiences don't count.
Happiness does not come quickly. It is not conferred by any single event, however exciting or comforting or satisfying the event may be. It cannot be purchased, whatever the allure of the next, the newest, the brightest, the best. Happiness, like Carl Sandburg's fog, "comes on little cat feet," often silently, often without our knowing it, too often without our noticing.
The reputation of generosity is to be purchased pretty cheap; it does not depend so much upon a man's general expense, as it does upon his giving handsomely where it is proper to give at all. A man, for instance, who should give a servant four shillings, would pass for covetous, while he who gave him a crown, would be reckoned generous; so that the difference of those two opposite characters, turns upon one shilling.
Those who spend their strength in field and factory would rather hear that their emancipation is bound to come than that it is something to be hazardously purchased by struggle and sacrifice.
Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold. . . has its natural and its market price.
There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
A testimony is a most precious possession because it is not acquired by logic or reason alone, it cannot be purchased with earthly possessions, and it cannot be given as a present or inherited from our ancestors. We cannot depend on the testimonies of other people. We need to know for ourselves. President Gordon B. Hinckley said, ‘Every Latter-day Saint has the responsibility to know for himself or herself with a certainty beyond doubt that Jesus is the resurrected, living Son of the living God.
Eat in the dark the bargain that you purchased in the dusk.
