Top 23 Quotes About Free Lunches
#1. The public is looking for free lunches, and the political competition for votes makes the politicians offer them free lunches.
Robert Mundell
#2. There are no free lunches in philosophy any more than in real life.
Jaegwon Kim
#5. There are no free lunches in life. You have to earn it. I am paying my dues. People have accused me of having it easy because I am Amitabh Bachchan's son. Yes, I am his son, and I've never run away from it. I work hard to make him proud.
Abhishek Bachchan
#6. I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work.
Lee Iacocca
#7. Don't be gullible, use life before it uses you. Understand there are no free lunches, and for every action you take, there's a reaction.
Sylvester Stallone
#8. It is true that from a behavioral economics perspective we are fallible, easily confused, not that smart, and often irrational. We are more like Homer Simpson than Superman. So from this perspective it is rather depressing. But at the same time there is also a silver lining. There are free lunches!
Dan Ariely
#9. Mom recognizes only two sources of wisdom
the bible and Hallmark.
Paula Wall
#10. I grew up in Georgia, in a small town in the southwest corner of Georgia, actually, called Sylvester.
Sue Monk Kidd
#11. To control a people you must first control what they think about themselves and how they regard their history and culture. And when your conqueror makes you ashamed of your culture and your history, he needs no prison walls and no chains to hold you.
John Henrik Clarke
#12. There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.
H.L. Mencken
#13. The nearest approach to the infallible in literary judgment is represented in the colossal work of the teacher of all these three [Edmund Gosse, Edward Dowden and George Saintsbury], the greatest critic that ever lived - not an Englishman, but a Frenchman, the wonderful Sainte-Beuve.
Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
#14. This habit of free speaking at ladies' lunches has impaired society; it has doubtless led to many of the tragedies of divorce and marital unhappiness. Could society be deaf and dumb and Congress abolished for a season, what a happy and peaceful life one could lead!
M. E. W. Sherwood
#15. Lunches don't get free just because you don't see the prices on the menu. And economists don't get popular by reminding people of that.
Thomas Sowell
#16. There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.
Jim Leach
#17. There is in the soul a desire for not thinking.
For being still. Coupled with this
a desire to be strict, yes, and rigorous.
But the soul is also a smooth son of a bitch,
not always trustworthy. And I forgot that.
Raymond Carver
#18. I think when the bottom started to drop out, we didn't recognize it.
Wellington Mara
#19. The needles they poke you with leaves a hole that closes in. But unkind words can make a hole that will never mend.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#21. And, finally, Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript. Though maybe a teleprompter could have helped that!
David Herbert Donald
#22. We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.
Joyce Meyer
#23. There was good in seahorses, in yellow dwarfs of destiny, but they are in no way adapted to the requirements of modern life.
Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov)
Tom McDonough
