Top 100 Purchased Quotes
#1. Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.
Seneca.
#2. Trusted counselors, mentors and guides make an indelible mark on the lives they touch, and they provide the two ingredients to success in life
caring and sharing
that cannot be learned or purchased.
David Cottrell
#3. Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect
Adam Clarke
#4. I've gotten emails from people who purchased items from an infomercial, only to find out that the shipping was more expensive than the item itself. The lesson: If you truly want to order something you see on TV, go online to the product's website and see if you can find out more information.
Jean Chatzky
#5. What virtue is it that is born with us?
Much less can honor be ascribed thereto,
Honor is purchased by the deeds we do.
Believe me, Hero, honor is not won,
Until some honorable deed be done.
----From "Hero and Leander, Sestiad I
Christopher Marlowe
#6. Even the poorest House can be rich in loyalty. Allegiance that must be purchased by bribes or wages is hollow and flawed, and could break at the worst possible moment. Allegiance that comes from the heart, though, is stronger than adamantium and more valuable than purest melange.
Brian Herbert
#7. I use no Porter ... in my family, but such as is made in America: both these articles may now be purchased of an excellent quality.
George Washington
#8. I had purchased a one-way ticket on the crazy train, barreling straight toward heartbreak central.
Arabella Quinn
#9. To ask the master for a knife, or skillet, or any small convenience of the kind, would be answered with a kick, or laughed at as a joke. Whatever necessary article of this nature is found in a cabin has been purchased with Sunday money.
Solomon Northup
#10. When I was seventeen
I drank some very good beer
I drank some very good beer I purchased
With a fake ID
My name was Brian McGee
I stayed up listening to Queen
When I was seventeen
Homer
#11. 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.
Samuel Johnson
#12. By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.
Bayard Taylor
#13. Soon after he purchased me, Epps asked me if I could write and read, and on being informed that I had received some instruction in those branches of education, he assured me, with emphasis, if he ever caught me with a book, or with pen and ink, he would give me a hundred lashes.
Solomon Northup
#14. We had left the flea market - collecting Malena from a stall that sold live birds, where she'd purchased a box of pigeons which she had proceeded to suck dry in the car -
Seanan McGuire
#15. Have you ever known anyone who bought a fruitcake for himself? Of course not. They are purchased as Christmas gifts, mostly for people you don't particularly like.
Phyllis Diller
#16. There's a lot of books that I've purchased simply because of the cover design. On the other hand, there's certain books that, even if I'm very curious about the content, I can't bring myself to buy if I really dislike the cover.
Adrian Tomine
#17. I think my first big purchase was actually for my mom. She had one of those '90s TVs in her living room that's like a 10x10 brick, so I purchased her a flatscreen for her living room.
Dave Franco
#18. Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.
William Jennings Bryan
#19. When the smoothness of the pages of a newly purchased book comes to your hands, it is evident that the book is well-read.
Mosiur Rehman
#20. Liberal of cruelty are those who pamper with promises; promisers destroy while they deceive, and the hope they raise is dearly purchased by the dependence that is sequent to disappointment.
Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann
#21. The only 'Idol' music I've ever purchased is Phillip Phillips.
Crystal Bowersox
#22. After you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation ... having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession.
Billy Graham
#23. In the end, for me, the sole single goal is to write the best novel that I can. Whether or not it gets made or gets purchased.
Nicholas Sparks
#24. If life is a blank canvas and all people are artists, the big challenge we all face may be expressed this way: Will we ultimately produce something approaching a masterpiece, an acceptable but not particularly memorable work of art, or a creation that wouldn't even be purchased at a yard sale?
Mardy Grothe
#26. I always think long term about anything. That's why I have never sold anything that I've ever purchased. And I never purchase anything that I don't think I'm going to keep for a lifetime.
Donald Sterling
#27. The highly industrialized factory farm is entirely dependent on "purchased inputs." The agrarian farm, well integrated into the natural systems that support it, runs to an economically significant extent on resources and supplies that are free. It
Wendell Berry
#28. The chariot was purchased by a private collector who took it home to New York. I take pleasure in knowing that it was built to last for at least a thousand years.
Kit Williams
#29. Wisdom can be found and held onto ... but wisdom can never be purchased. It is not for sale.
Doug Berry
#30. I'm gonna see 'Mission Impossible' Part 9 because I like Tom Cruise movies! But just because the box office has that one receipt from the ticket I purchased, doesn't mean it represents someone who liked it.
Sean Patrick Flanery
#31. One of the joys of working with boys is that you get your pay as you go along. You can observe the results of your leadership daily ... Such satisfaction cannot be purchased at any price; it must be earned.
Ezra Taft Benson
#32. China has legally purchased high performance computers, advanced machine tools, and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from several American companies.
Charles Bass
#33. So, you purchased ancient Babylonian texts, which may or may not call forth Gozer the Destroyer, on eBay? Zeb asked.
Molly Harper
#34. ... religious traditions build up meaning only over time and in a communal context. They can't be purchased like a burger or a pair of shoes.
Kathleen Norris
#35. Meditation cannot be purchased and no one can give it to you. You have to achieve it. It is not something outer, it is something inner, a growth, and that growth comes through awareness.
Rajneesh
#37. Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold ... has its natural and its market price.
David Ricardo
#38. You bought something. You shopped!"
"I didn't shop. I purchased what is likely stolen merchandise, or gray-market goods. It's potential evidence.
J.D. Robb
#39. Even defensive portfolios should be changed from time to time, especially if the securities purchased have an apparently excessive advance and can be replaced by issues much more reasonable priced.
Benjamin Graham
#40. Once I was standing in line to buy a telephone and Senator Wirth was in line with me. The next day the New York Times reported that we'd both purchased telephones and what price we'd paid!
Harold H. Greene
#41. 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.
Joseph Addison
#42. Oh my God, I think I purchased some Jimmy Choos, and they hurt like crazy. That's when I realized that fashion truly isn't about comfort; it's about looking good.
Selenis Leyva
#43. When I was 16, the first book I ever actually purchased with my own money, in fact, and had read on my own time was 'Hunt for Red October' by Tom Clancy.
Max Brooks
#44. Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
Adam Smith
#45. The opposite of war is not peace but civilisation, and civilisation is purchased with violence and cold-blooded murder. With war.
Nadeem Aslam
#46. People who buy equity ETF shares in taxable accounts, such as a joint account or trust account, will find their tax bill may be slightly lower at the end of the year than if they had purchased the same amount in a comparable open-end index fund.
Richard Ferri
#47. I also became interested in chemistry and gradually accumulated enough test tubes and other glassware to do chemical experiments, using small quantities of chemicals purchased from a pharmacy supply house.
Sydney Brenner
#48. I was pleased that two very disparate photographs, two images that each worked in their own way had appealed enough to other people for them to buy them. I was also relieved they weren't the last ones purchased, and that they sold for a pound more than the frame was worth.
Graeme Le Saux
#49. Every kind of perfection is purchased at a high price on earth, where everything is perhaps purchased too dear; one is an expert in one's department at the price of being also a victim of one's department.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#50. Thirdly, Christ's salvation must be a free gift. He 'purchased' it for us at the high price of his own life-blood. So what is there left for us to pay? Nothing! Since he claimed that all was now 'finished', there is nothing for us to contribute.
John R.W. Stott
#51. Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
Patrick Henry
#52. With an eBook, however, you are not a first-class commercial citizen. Instead, you have only purchased tenuous rights within someone else's company store. You cannot resell, nor can you do anything else to treat your purchase as an investment.
Jaron Lanier
#53. Beauty can be created, knowledge learned, but talent can neither be purchased nor taught.
Danielle L. Jensen
#54. Ye are God's building
All hands of the glorious Trinity are at work in this building. The Father chose the objects of mercy, and gave them to the Son to be redeemed; the Son purchased redemption for them; and the Holy Ghost applies the purchased redemption unto them.
Thomas Boston
#55. For the first hundred years, as far as I could tell, all that happened in America was that various people named Nathaniel had purchased land near rivers.
Jon Ronson
#56. All of material and All of any services can be purchased, with the exception of, Love, Peace and Joy, they are not for sale at any price
I. Alan Appt
#57. Peace purchased at the cost of any part of our national integrity is fit only for slaves, and even when purchased for such a price it is a delusion, for it cannot last.
William Borah
#58. From the time I was 7, when I purchased my first calculator, I was fascinated by the idea of a machine that could compute things.
Michael Dell
#59. Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
St. Jerome
#60. Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.
Samuel Johnson
#61. Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the marketplace. It may not be purchased of the merchants, for can it be weighed out in the balance for gold.
Oscar Wilde
#62. A margin of safety is achieved when securities are purchased at prices sufficiently below underlying value to allow for human error, bad luck, or extreme volatility in a complex, unpredictable and rapidly changing world.
Seth Klarman
#63. The new covenant is purchased by the blood of Christ, effected by the Spirit of Christ, and appropriated by faith in Christ.
John Piper
#64. We belong to Jesus because He has purchased us by His blood. He will not return or exchange what He has bought.
Anthony Carter
#65. But of those whom He has chosen, whom He has purchased to Himself, He says what He says not of others - "my people." In
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#66. I'd purchased it before my trip to the gay rodeo with a bunch of friends many moons ago. Many horses had been saved that weekend as many cowboys had been ridden. ...
Ethan Day
#67. was passed authorizing the appointment of a commission to select a site for an additioual lunatic asylum and to commence its erection. A site was selected three miles from Morristown, and 430 acres of land were purchased. An extensive building was erected, at a cost, including land,
Monroe Howell
#68. What want these outlaws conquerors should have but history's purchased page to call them great?
Lord Byron
#69. Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.
Benjamin Netanyahu
#70. When I saw the Cameron Crowe film We Bought A Zoo, it got me to thinking about how our lives are structured the same way as the zoo that was purchased by Benjamin Mee totally changed
Mike Vardy
#71. What I do maintain is that success can only be one ingredient in happiness,
and is too dearly purchased if all the other ingredients have been sacrificed to obtain
it.
Bertrand Russell
#72. You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery.
Ronald Reagan
#73. If Athens shall appear great to you, consider then that her glories were purchased by valiant men, and by men who learned their duty.
Pericles
#74. So much value has been lost in the housing market that people are now buying. If there's any activity in the housing market, it's because values have plummeted to such depths that the 47% can now afford to live in a government-purchased house, or something like that.
Rush Limbaugh
#76. The strictness of to-day may have at any moment to be purchased by the laxity of to-morrow.
Mary Augusta Ward
#77. I purchased some clothes for you," Theodora said ... "I was given you measurements, so hopefully they fit. If they don't, you will have to either lose or gain weight or height.
Lemony Snicket
#78. I've just purchased a property, Edward, close to yours in
Kitty Neale
#79. With ever greater frequency they annihilate themselves, for success breeds contempt for those very qualities that purchased it.
Steven Erikson
#80. Wherever desirable superfluities are imported, industry is excited, and thereby plenty is produced. Were only necessaries permitted to be purchased, men would work no more than was necessary for that purpose.
Benjamin Franklin
#81. The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
Frederick Douglass
#82. There are many teenage vampire books you could have purchased instead. I'm grateful you made this choice.
Mindy Kaling
#84. The blood of Christ "purchased men for God from every tribe and language and people and nation" (Revelation 5:9 NIV).
Billy Graham
#85. A house, having been willfully purchased and furnished, tells us more than a body, and its description is a foremost resource of the art of fiction.
John Updike
#86. In order to feel safer on his private jet, actor John Travolta has purchased a bomb-sniffing dog. Unfortunately for the actor, the dog came six movies too late.
Tina Fey
#87. Peace of mind, joy and happiness cannot be purchased with money or worldly goods.
Spencer W. Kimball
#88. Only men of considerable vanity write books; consistently therewith, I worried lest the world were exchanging an irreplaceable author for a more easily purchased diplomat.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#89. 14 The Spirit is God's guarantee that he will give us the inheritance he promised and that he has purchased us
Anonymous
#90. No one was more surprised than I to realize that my newfound freedom had been purchased by giving up on eternity and settling for hell.
Carolyn Jessop
#91. I cannot say that I regret my comparative insignificance, Importance may sometimes be purchased too dearly.
Jane Austen
#92. The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief.
Russell Brand
#93. The aristocracy had crumbled in her hands; the power vacuum she purchased was a good decision.
Charli Frisky
#94. My love can't be purchased ... Best gifts have been well-thought-out surprises.
Nina Dobrev
#95. I think it's our unique product selection and the idea that everything we sell only can be purchased at Ikea.
Joseph Roth
#96. Happiness is never found in materialistic things; it exists in things that cannot be physically possessed. Therefore, happiness is priceless. It can never be purchased.
Ellen J. Barrier
#97. The game's the thing. That's the conventional wisdom, isn't it? The fun is what matters, not the victory. To glory in the defeat of another, to need that purchased pride, is to show you are incomplete and inadequate to start with.
Iain M. Banks
#98. 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.
Sallust
#99. People who had previously purchased a "green" product were significantly more likely to both lie and steal than those who had purchased the conventional product. Their demonstration of ethical behavior subconsciously gave them license to act unethically when the chance arose.
William MacAskill
#100. Every relationship can feel saturated by market logic or at best purchased at the price of the immiseration of others.
Ben Lerner
