Famous quotes containing the word goods:
“He was a laborer. Sweated his goods out for nine pound a week. He never had it so good.”
—Alan Sillitoe (b. 1928)
“This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.”
—David Hume (17111776)
“Sir: Between buccaneers, no ceremony; I take your dry goods, and in return I send you pimento; therefore, we are now even. I entertain no resentment.... Nothing can intimidate us; we run the same fortune, and our maxim is that the goods of this world belong to the strong and valiant.”
—For the State of Florida, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
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