
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
“When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.”
Variant: When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
“Nothing is without cost. There is a price to all power, and it is not always obvious.”
Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 10, “King Hemlock” (p. 142).
“55: LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.”
Epigrams on Programming, 1982
“The price of doing nothing is far greater than the cost of error.”
All Will be Well (2004)
“3660. Nothing costs so much as what is given us.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)