Buys

Famous quotes containing the word buys:

“A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school, preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not “studying a profession,” for he does not postpone his life, but lives already.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“It is hard to contend against one’s heart’s desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.”
—Heraclitus (c. 535–475 B.C.)

“The Muses inspire art and pretend not to notice when Mammon buys it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)