“ I shall ne'er be ware of mine own wit till I break my shins against it. - As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 4. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2K
“ This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
- 484
“ I sometimes lie, especially about personal things, because what does it matter? I am a kind of minute commodity, my name is no longer my own. ”
- River Phoenix- Copy
- 2.9K
“ If the United Nations is a country unto itself, then the commodity it exports most is words. ”
- Esther B. Fein- Copy
- 858
“ Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 2K
“ Television was supposed to be a national park. Instead it has become a money machine. It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies. ”
- Fred Friendly- Copy
- 2.4K
“ We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. ”
- Aldo Leopold- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Time isn't a commodity, something you pass around like cake. Time is the substance of life. When anyone asks you to give your time, they're really asking for a chunk of your life. ”
- Antoinette Bosco- Copy
- 3K
“ The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment. ”
- Herbert Marcuse- Copy
- 3.8K
“ The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun. ”
- John D. Rockefeller- Copy
- 974
“ Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. ”
- Robert F. Kennedy- Copy
- 939
“ Quality, quality, quality: never waver from it, even when you don't see how you can afford to keep it up. When you compromise, you become a commodity and then you die. ”
- Gary Hirshberg- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too. ”
- Jan Morris- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Another cause which aggravates taxes is the force of paying them in money at a certain tinge, and not in commodities at the most convenient seasons. ”
- William Petty- Copy
- 747
“ If I'm a commodity, it wouldn't be a wise idea to buy stock in me - although, in the long run, maybe I'm a slow growth investment. ”
- Tim Robbins- Copy
- 758
“ Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone, see what a vast estate he left his son. ”
- John Dryden- Copy
- 632
“ Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion. ”
- Daniel J. Boorstin- Copy
- 2K
“ No wonder poets sometimes have to seemSo much more businesslike than businessmen.Their wares are so much harder to get rid of. ”
- Robert Frost- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump. ”
- Christopher Morley- Copy
- 3.1K
“ The world of the commodity is a world updside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work. ”
- Raoul Vaneigem- Copy
- 865
“ New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become. ”
- Kurt Vonnegut- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth.". ”
- Peter McWilliams- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Each of us has the same quantity of the most precious commodity in the world - time. ”
- Ted Janusz- Copy
- 2.9K
“ A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties. ”
- Karl Marx- Copy
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