“the price of creation
is never
too high.
the price of living
with other people
always
is.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
“The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.”
"The Price of Empire" speech, to the meeting of the American Bar Association in Hawaii (August 1967), in Haynes Bonner Johnson and Bernard M. Gwertzman, Fulbright: The Dissenter (1968), p. 305.
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“No price is too high to pay for a good laugh.”
Roscoe Arbuckle (1887–1933) American silent film actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter
The Cost of a Laugh, Motion Picture Magazine, March 1918. http://archive.org/stream/motionpicturemag152moti#page/n75/mode/2up
Tanith Lee book Vazkor, Son of Vazkor
Book Two, Part I “Yellow City”, Chapter 5 (p. 152)
Vazkor, Son of Vazkor (1978)
“Where the army is, prices are high; when prices rise the wealth of the people is exhausted.”
Sun Tzu (-543–-495 BC) ancient Chinese military general, strategist and philosopher from the Zhou Dynasty
Source: The Art of War, Chapter II · Waging War
Stanley A. McChrystal (1954) American general
Retirement ceremony, Friday, 23 July 2010, as quoted in The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/24/us/24mcchrystal.html. <br class="br">2010 <br class="br">Context: Service in this business is tough and often dangerous. It extracts a price for participants, and that price can be high. It is tempting to protect yourself from the personal and professional cost of loss by limiting how much you commit, how much you believe and trust in people, and how deeply you care&hellip; If I had it to do over again, I&rsquo; d do some things in my career differently, but not many. I believed in people and I still believe in them. I trusted and I still trust. I cared and I still care. I wouldn&rsquo; t have had it any other way.
“There taught us how to live; and (oh! too high
The price for knowledge) taught us how to die.”
Thomas Tickell (1685–1740) English poet and man of letters
On the Death of Mr. Addison (1721), line 81. Compare: "He who should teach men to die, would at the same time teach them to live", Michel de Montaigne, Essay, book i. chap. ix.; "I have taught you, my dear flock, for above thirty years how to live; and I will show you in a very short time how to die", Sandys, Anglorum Speculum, p. 903; "Teach him how to live, And, oh still harder lesson! how to die", Beilby Porteus, Death, line 316; "He taught them how to live and how to die", Somerville, In Memory of the Rev. Mr. Moore.
Context: There patient show'd us the wise course to steer,
A candid censor, and a friend severe;
There taught us how to live; and (oh! too high
The price for knowledge) taught us how to die.
“Terrorism is the price of empire. If we do not wish to pay it, we must give up the empire.”
Patrick Buchanan (1938) American politician and commentator
2000s, Where the Right Went Wrong (2004)
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)
Des Moines Iowa speech (1 February 1916) http://www.combat.ws/S3/BAKISSUE/CMBT01N2/SMOKE.HTM, on "The Westerm Preparedness Tour" http://www.allthingswilliam.com/presidents/wilson.html <br class="br">1910s
