Price Lunch Due

Famous quotes containing the words price, lunch and/or due:

    Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
    Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    Extreme patience and persistence are required,
    Yet everybody succeeds at this before being handed
    The surprise box lunch of the rest of his life.
    John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    Praise is a more ingenious, concealed, and subtle kind of flattery, that satisfies both the giver and the receiver, though by very different ways. The one accepts it as a reward due to his merit; the other gives it that he may be looked upon as a just and discerning person.
    François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)