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All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things, that the indolent man and the laborious man, the spendthrift and the economist, the imprudent and the wise, should obtain and enjoy an equal amount of goods.

– Victor Cousin

The quality of American life must keep pace with the quantity of American goods. This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.

– John F. Kennedy

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

– Aristotle

Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved problems of the organization of labor and the distribution of goods--in order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

– Albert Einstein

Between two evils, choose neither between two goods, choose both.

– Tryon Edwards

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, especially if the goods are worthless.

– Sinclair Lewis

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

– Sinclair Lewis

All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things, that the indolent man and the laborious man, the spendthrift and the economist, the imprudent and the wise, should obtain and enjoy an equal amount of goods.

– Victor Cousin

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

– Thorstein Veblen

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

– Truman Capote

He who thinks by the inch and talks by the yard deserves to be kicked by the foot.

– Unknown

I think one way police departments could make some money would be to hold a yard sale of murder weapons. Many people, for example, could probably use a cheap ice pick.

– Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.

– William Faulkner

If the grass is greener in the other fellow's yard - let him worry about cutting it.

– Fred Allen

If you let a bully come in your front yard, he'll be on your porch the next day and the day after that he'll rape your wife in your own bed. (On appeasement)

– Lyndon B. Johnson

If you want to sue somebody, just get a little plastic skeleton and lay it in their yard. Then tell them their ants ate your baby.

– Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Metric is definitely communist. One monetary system, one language, one weight and measurement system, one world - all communist! We know the West was won by the inch, foot, yard, and mile.

– Dean Krakel, Director of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

– H. Ross Perot

Nothing more clearly show how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other wordly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.

– La Bruyere

Poverty of goods is easily cured poverty of the mind is irreparable.

– D. A. Battista

The want of goods is easily repaired, but the poverty of the soul is irreparable.

– Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

There is a diabolical trio existing in the natural man, implacable, inextinguishable, co-operative and consentaneous, pride, envy, and hate; pride that makes us fancy we deserve all the goods that others possess; envy that some should be admired while we are overlooked; and hate, because all that is bestowed on others, diminishes the sum we think due to ourselves.

– C. C. Colton

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

– Henry Ford

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

– Henry Ford

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