Quotes about cost

What you get free costs too much.

— Jean Anouilh

The gods sell to us all the goods which they give us.

— Epicharmus

Expenditures rise to meet income.

— C. Northcote Parkinson

The gods sell all things at a fair price.

— Proverb

Something you don't want is dear at any price.

— Proverb

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

— John Ruskin

Why so large a cost, having so short a lease, does thou upon your fading mansion spend?

— William Shakespeare

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

— Henry David Thoreau