Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.

Great Homer's birthplace seven rival cities claim, Too mighty such monopoly of Fame.

— Thomas Seward

Flesh-meats will depreciate the blood. Cook meat with spices, and eat it with rich cakes and pies, and you have a bad quality of…

— Ellen G. White

Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and…

— Warren Buffett

Real merit of any kind cannot long be concealed; it will be discovered, and nothing can depreciate it but a man exhibiting it himself.…

— Lord Chesterfield

The duty of criticism is neither to depreciate nor dignify by partial representations, but to hold out the light of reason, whatever it may…

— Samuel Johnson

All that stock of arguments [the skeptics] produce to depreciate our faculties, and make mankind appear ignorant and low, are drawn principally from this…

— George Berkeley

It might otherwise appear paradoxical that money can be replaced by worthless paper; but that the slightest alloying of its metallic content depreciates it.

— Karl Marx

An over-readiness to criticise or to depreciate a minister of Christ is proof of a lack of devotion to Christ.

— Henry Clay Trumbull

To form our taste, we must neither depreciate nor imitate, but we should understand and originate.

— Willis Polk

There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times.

— Edward Gibbon

“Every asset that you're entrusted with--whether it's money, procedures, materials, technology--all of it is depreciating. All of it is becoming obsolete. Human assets can…

— John C. Maxwell

“And she looked upon the mirror that was given as a gift. She hated everything about it, from the circular size of it, to…

— Anthony Liccione

By creating the European Central Bank, the member states exposed their own government bonds to the risk of default. Developed countries that issue bonds…

— George Soros

They hurt me many times, I forgive them many time but my love for them depreciate each time.

— Usman Ismaheel

Everyone wants a piece of land. It's the only sure investment. It can never depreciate like a car or a washing machine. Land will…

— Sam Shepard