Source: Fortunatus the Pessimist (1892), Fortunatus in Act I, sc. ii; p. 17.
William Barclay (1964) The Gospel of John. Vol. 2, p. 77
“But if the labourers could live on air they could not be bought at any price.”
Vol. I, Ch. 24, Section 4, pg. 657.
(Buch I) (1867)
“6495. An Ounce of Wit that's bought,
Is worth a Pound that's taught.”
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1745) : An ounce of wit that is bought, Is worth a pound that is taught.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“All is unreality. Nothing is worth discussing, worth desiring.”
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Essays in Idleness (1967 Columbia University Press, Trns: Donald Keene)
“I think this is a very hard choice, but the price — we think the price is worth it.”
Stated http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbIX1CP9qr4 on CBS's 60 Minutes (May 12, 1996) in reply to Lesley Stahl's question "We have heard that half a million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?" Albright was U.S. ambassador to the United Nations at the time.
1990s
Epigraph, The Thorn Birds (1977)
Context: There is a legend about a bird that sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. From the moment it leaves the nest it searches for a thorn tree and does not rest until it has found one. Then, singing among the savage branches, it impales itself upon the longest, sharpest spine. Dying, it rises above its own agony to out-carol the lark and the nightingale. One superlative song, existence the price. But the whole world stills to listen, and God in His heaven smiles. For the best is only bought at the cost of the great pain. … Or so says the legend.
“This is the price that must be paid for progress and it is worth it.”
The Rickover Effect (1992)
Context: Everything new endangers something old. A new machine replaces human hands; a new source of power threatens old businesses; a new trade route wipes out the supremacy of old ports and brings prosperity to new ones. This is the price that must be paid for progress and it is worth it.
