Famous quotes containing the words net, gain and/or expressed:
“A man’s whole life is taxed for the least thing well done. It is its net result.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)
“The reality of the individual ... is an incoherent reality and must be expressed incoherently.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)