Theres No Such Thing As A Free Lunch And Other Quotes

#1. There are no free lunches on welfare.

Joseph A. Califano Jr.

#2. There's no such thing as a free lunch, unless you have a coupon for a free lunch ... or someone gives you a lunch ... never mind.

John Adams

#3. In an ideal world for me, school lunch would be free for everybody.

Tom Colicchio

#4. It is important to recognize that behind the razzmatazz of consumerism, we all remain dependent on basic natural resources - land, air, water and biodiversity - for every product and service. There can be no free lunch on the environment.

Klaus Topfer

#5. For millennia mankind has believed that nothing can come out of nothing. Today we can argue that everything has come out of nothing. Nobody has to pay for the universe. It is the ultimate free lunch.

Paul Davies

#6. God likes to have his free lunch and be it too.

Richard Dawkins

#7. Creative confidence and perseverance can make you free. Lack of faith in your own ability, surrender of will power, or panic replacing logic will make you into a spider's lunch.

Doug "Ten" Rose

#8. You learn as you grow up, if you're intelligent - or even three-quarter witted - that there's no free lunch. You pay for things in various ways. Living, loving, everything else is a matter of the same principles: you learn to work with what you have.

Iris Apfel

#9. I want every child in America to eat a nutritious, delicious, sustainably sourced school lunch for free.

Alice Waters

#10. Some of the free lunch programs were still goin' on - based on the last leg of the Black Panther Party.

Kool Moe Dee

#11. Generally speaking, we get the joke. We know that the free market is nonsense. We know that the whole point is to game the system, to beat the market or at least find someone who will pay you a lot of money, 'cause they're convinced that there is a free lunch.

Ron Bloom

#12. Rightly or wrongly, most Americans look at mortgage equity withdrawal as the closest thing to a free lunch.

Paul McCulley

#13. Just enough to make up for all the fucking taxes the government took out of my regular paycheck. "Free" counseling. "Free" healthcare. "Free" employment services. "Free" food. There's no such thing as a free lunch. Keep that in mind. Somewhere, somehow, somebody is paying. For everything.

Ken Wheaton

#14. I've been pounding the table here for a year or so saying there's no free lunch, and there is going to be a day of reckoning for every company that thinks they are going to try and sell a free model.

Darl McBride

#15. The small businessman is smart; he realizes there's no free lunch. On the other hand, he knows where to go to get a good inexpensive sandwich.

Adam Osborne

#16. There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Milton Friedman

#17. The beauty of diversification is it's about as close as you can get to a free lunch in investing.

Barry Ritholtz

#18. We must explain the truth: There is no free lunch.

Grace Napolitano

#19. Once the true relationship between inflation and unemployment is understood, with luck and skill, a free lunch is possible.

Paul Ormerod

#20. There's no such thing as a free lunch, at least on the karmic level.

Joan D. Vinge

#21. A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

Aldous Huxley

#22. So far he'd been there for three hours, hadn't gotten a thing done, was heading out for a free lunch, and was getting paid for it. Jobs were awesome.

J.P. Barnaby

#23. It is said that there's no such thing as a free lunch. But the universe is the ultimate free lunch.

Stephen Hawking

#24. Every morning I look in the mirror and remind myself: "No one owes you sh*t!" In this way, I am never disappointed. Never placing blame.

Brandi L. Bates

#25. In the financial world it tends to be misleading to state, "There is no free lunch." Rather the more meaningful comment is, "Somebody has to pay for lunch."

Martin J. Whitman

#26. There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

Pierre Dos Utt

#27. When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.

Rafe Spall

#28. Thanks to his salary, an employee is free to eat whatever, wherever. However, because of his job, he is not free to eat whenever.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#29. A free lunch doesn't taste as good as a well earned dinner

Steven Aitchison

#30. We have believed in any number of things - the tooth fairy, cold fusion, and benefits of smoking, the free lunch - that turn out not to exist. We all subscribe to preposterous beliefs; we just don't know yet which ones they are.

Stacy Schiff