“Ask a man how much a dollar is worth, and he'll tell you, 'Almost nothing.' Try to take a dollar away from him, and you'll get yourself a fight.”
Source: Fate's Edge
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Ilona Andrews428
American husband-and-wife novelist duoRelated quotes
“They charged me 15 dollars. That's how much it costs to only have 20 dollars.”
Louis C.K. (1967) American comedian and actor
On being broke http://youtube.com/watch?v=rpaCQKJpE9k
“For every dollar spent in failure, learn a dollar’s worth of lesson.”
Jesse Robbins (1978) American entrepreneur
Quoted in article by Eric Ries about lean startup movement. http://venturehacks.com/articles/five-whys-2
“If one man has a dollar he didn't work for, some other man worked for a dollar he didn't get.”
Bill Haywood (1869–1928) Labor organizer
Roughneck, The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood, Peter Carlson, 1983, page 146.
Smedley D. Butler (1881–1940) United States Marine Corps General, 2 time Medal of Honor recipient and activist
From a speech (1933)
Mitt Romney (1947) American businessman and politician
[2007-04-26, AP Interview: Romney says he's not the only one switching positions, rivals do it too, Liz Sidoti, San Francisco Chronicle, http://web.archive.org/web/20070430053858/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/04/26/politics/p131443D20.DTL&type=politics, 2007-04-30, http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/04/26/politics/p131443D20.DTL&type=politics]
regarding Osama bin Laden
2007 campaign for Republican nomination for United States President
“Hey, you’re getting to be almost worth how much it costs to feed you.”
Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist
“Good thing, ’cause I got no plan to eat less.”
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 3 “Fever” (p. 48).
“If you owe a man a dollar, pay it; if you owe him a grudge, forget it, and always be kind.”
Terence V. Powderly (1849–1924) American mayor
[Powderly, Terence, 'The Path I Trod: The Autobiography of Terence V. Powderly, 1940, Columbia University Press, 9781163178164, https://archive.org/stream/pathitrodautobio00powdrich, 34]
