Cost Quote by James Russell Lowell Download Open image “At the devil's booth are all things sold. Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold.” — James Russell Lowell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cost Devil Dross Gold
When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“I’m a natural salesman. I sold my soul to the devil. I’m so shrewd that I got pennies on the dollar for it. Ha!… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Your souls are precious and can only be equal to the price of Paradise, therefore sell them only at that price — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
It's not what the price of gold is that matters, but rather how much stuff it will buy. — Michael Maloney Copy Share Image
“Layney - "I hear they sell them at Evil ’R Us. You have an account there, don’t you? Maybe you can pick one up… — Gwen Hayes Copy Share Image
All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“It was your covenant with the devil to exchange your soul for money and fame, so i won't be sorry for your damn f***ing… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
When the U.S. government stops wasting our resources by trying to maintain the price of gold, its price will sink to...$6 an ounce rather… — Henry S. Reuss Copy Share Image
For me Christ was not to be bought for thirty pieces of silver but with my heart's blood. We buy not cheap in this… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
This I'd what has been wrought for 30 pieces of silver. The tongues of men and angels bought by a beloved betrayer. — Lamb Of God Copy Share Image
He gives only the worthless gold who gives from a sense of duty. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Most religion-mongers have bated their paradises with a bit of toasted cheese. They have tempted the body with large promises of possessions in their… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
It is beginning to be doubtful whether Parliament and Congress sit in Westminster and Washington, or in the editorial rooms of the leading journals,--so… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I would borrow money all day long, if the cost of borrowing is less than the expected return. — Brad Schneider Copy Share Image
I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
What a thrill. You know you've entered new territory when you realise that your outfit cost more than your film. — Jessica Yu Copy Share Image
[Photography is ] likewise even French impressionists. So the Sculls bought pop. It was politics, and they moved with it. And I think that… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
What has drug addiction done for me? It's cost me my career, my fortune and basically my sex life when I found out I… — Robbin Crosby Copy Share Image
I agreed a long time ago, I would not live at any cost. If I am moved or forced away from what I think… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I believe that government is too large, costs too much, spends too much, and has too much regulatory power in our lives. — Tim Walberg Copy Share Image
One reason for the tremendous increase in health-care costs in the U.S. is managerial neglect of the "hotel services" by the people who dominate… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
When the government pays, health care's lack of affordability becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. In health care, as in other things, government is the high-cost… — Arnold Kling Copy Share Image
“In your goals to go the extra mile, prepare to pay an extra cost. Excellence is to be exceptional, surpassing, more competent and a… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image