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A toothache will cost a battle, a drizzle cancel an insurrection.

A toothache will cost a battle, a drizzle cancel an insurrection.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1965). “The eye: a novel”

Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.

Sidney Hook, Vladimir Konstantinovich BukovskiÄ­, Paul Hollander (1987). “Soviet hypocrisy and Western gullibility”

We are taking a greater chance of having another crash at a time when the world is less capable of bearing the cost.

"Nearly Every Abrupt Market Downturn Shares This One Characteristic" by John Mauldin, www.businessinsider.com. August 13, 2014.

A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

"Institutio Oratoria". Textbook by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, VI. 3. 5,

Where health care has failed is in designing a cost containment mechanism that works.

"Gov. Peter Shumlin: The man who'd bring single-payer health care to Vermont". Interview with Ezra Klein, voices.washingtonpost.com. February 10, 2011.

Anything acquired without effort, and without cost is generally unappreciated.

Napoleon Hill, J Goldenberg (2016). “Think and Grow Rich: 2016 Special Edition”, p.128, Money Books

True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.

May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.106, Open Road Media

No employer is going to hire robustly until they know what the health care cost is going to be.

"Lindsey Graham, Rick Scott and David Plouffe on "State of the Union"". www.realclearpolitics.com. March 25, 2012.

Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.

Lillian Hellman, Jackson R. Bryer (1986). “Conversations with Lillian Hellman”, p.70, Univ. Press of Mississippi

There are two kinds of marketing: expensive and inexpensive. Expensive marketing is the kind that doesn't work. Inexpensive marketing is the kind that works—regardless of cost.

Jay Conrad Levinson (2007). “Guerrilla Marketing, 4th edition: Easy and Inexpensive Strategies for Making Big Profits from Your SmallBusiness”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

One unrepaired broken window is a signal that no one cares, and so breaking more windows costs nothing.

James Q. Wilson (1995). “On Character: Essays”, p.126, American Enterprise Institute