I do not prize the word cheap. It is not a word of inspiration. It is the badge of poverty, the signal of distress. Cheap merchandise means cheap men and cheap men mean a cheap country. — William McKinley
The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter. — Dashiell Hammett
There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey. — John Ruskin
The cheap thing is always the most expensive one. — German proverbs
If the cost is lowering one's ego and a bit of money, so be it. — Nayib Bukele
Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny. — Plutarch
Products made in China are cheap through the exploitation of the workforce. Every time we shop, we are driving the nail further into the coffin of American manufacturing jobs. — Joe Baca
Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. — Quentin Crisp
A rich man is one who isn't afraid to ask the salesperson to show him something cheaper. — Jack Benny
Short Cheapen Quotes
I hate that word — 'lucky.' It cheapens a lot of hard work — Peter Dinklage
I love baseball and I don't want to be part of anything that would cheapen it or vulgarize it. — Vin Scully
The national debate on Social Security has been cheapened by demagoguery on all sides. — Bill Delahunt
I would never cheapen my relationships by talking about them. — Kristen Stewart
When people go at war they cheapen things. — Michael Pitt
Don't cheapen Jesus's sacrifice by trying to pay him back — Judah Smith
Your name is the most important thing you own. Don't ever do anything to disgrace or cheapen it. — Ben Hogan
No one is really miserable who has not tried to cheapen life. — David Starr Jordan
Sometimes I think to talk too much about music almost cheapens it — Ben Harper
My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech. — Patricia Briggs
Cheapness Quotes
We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories. — Cecil Rhodes
Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. — Lord Byron
Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them. — Queen Victoria
I believe in natural gas as a clean, cheap alternative to fossil fuels. — Nancy Pelosi
Cheap cigars come in handy; they stifle the odor of cheap politicians. — Ulysses S. Grant
Therapy is extremely expensive. Popping bubble wrap is radically cheap. — Jimmy Buffett
Nothing in this world is more simple and more cheap than making cities that provide better for people. — Jan Gehl
Save me from trendy religion that makes cheap clichés out of timeless truths. — Rich Mullins
Most of the good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program. — Linus Torvalds
Cheapskate Quotes
Hey, great idea: if you have kids, give your partner reading vouchers next Christmas. Each voucher entitles the bearer to two hours' reading time *while the kids are awake*. It might look like a cheapskate present, but parents will appreciate that it costs more in real terms than a Lamborghini. — Nick Hornby
I met a real looker. He picked me up at the two dollar slot machines, so you know he's no cheapskate." Grandma Mazur — Janet Evanovich
Bought the president the Louis presidential briefcase Never been a cheapskate — Nicki Minaj
I don't really pay too much attention to designers, I know what I like and I just try to find it, and I always try to find a cheaper deal because I have a tendency to be a cheapskate sometimes. — Bethany Cosentino
Monty Python paid me £20,000 to write, direct and assemble them - the cheapskates! I told them I'd never earned less in a year since leaving Cambridge. The first show sold out in 43 seconds and we ended up performing ten in total. We had no idea there would be such demand. — Eric Idle
Always try to learn from other people's mistakes, not your own- it is much cheaper that way! — Donald Trump
Search for a better, cheaper, more efficient method based on technology; use trial and error to identify what works, and then find the best people to implement the plan of action. — Jared Kushner
NASA will send up a big sun shade that will be in orbit between the earth and sun and deflect 2 or 3 percent of the sunshine back into space. It would be cheaper than the international space station. — James Lovelock
Melbourne is wonderfully altered since I last saw it. There are some very fair buildings in it now, and things are a little cheaper than they used to be. — William John Wills
When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine. — Pablo Picasso
Learn every day, but especially from the experiences of others. It's cheaper! — John C. Bogle
I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist. — Tammy Faye Bakker
We're in an inflection point where it's cheaper to learn to read on a tablet computer than it is to learn to read on paper. — Michael Saylor
If solar and wind are actually cheaper, why is China overwhelmingly using coal? Did they not get the memo. Did they not read the Lazard study? No, they know the Lazard study is trash. — Alex Epstein
If man is not made in the image of God, nothing then stands in the way of inhumanity. There is no good reason why mankind should be perceived as special. Human life is cheapened. We can see this in many of the major issues being debated in our society today. — Francis Schaeffer
His grace is cheapened when you think that He has only forgiven you of your sins up to the time you got saved, and after that point, you have to depend on your confession of sins to be forgiven. God's forgiveness is not given in installments. — Joseph Prince
I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us. — Hermann Hesse
Promiscuity in men may cheapen love but sharpen thought. Promiscuity in women is illness, a leakage of identity. — Camille Paglia
No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is an evil government. — Eric Hoffer
The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival. — Adrienne Rich
Good things take time, as they should. We shouldn't expect good things to happen overnight. Actually, getting something too easily or too soon can cheapen the outcome. — John Wooden
I always have a good quality extra virgin olive oil. A cheap quality oil will end up cheapening your dishes. And I love sweetening my dishes with maple syrup. It has a bit of a bitter kick at the end that works wonderfully in savory dishes. — Nadia Giosia
I loved The Wind in the Willows. ... Walt Disney should be sued for cheapening it as he did. Imagine it, Mickey Mousing all those nice characters. I'm surprised he didn't do it with the New Testament. — Tasha Tudor
I do believe that freedom isn't free - but today the corporate and political right wing is trying to cheapen this truly American value. They've been cynically using the word 'freedom' to rally the American public against its own best interests. — Richard Trumka
Maybe this is blasphemy to say, but I feel like music is not meant to be something that earning your keep depends on because it cheapens it and it will force you into making decisions in the interest of earning your keep, as opposed to the interest of the thing itself. — John Maus
Then what difference does human striving make: mortal struggle, valor, pain? If you live, then live for the test of spirit, for the celebration of the heart. Live to fight on other days. Lose your beloveds one by one. And remember. Exalt the kiss of friend and horse and wind and sun, which venality cannot cheapen nor stupidity belittle. — Janet Morris
To make a point of declaring friendship is to cheapen it. For men's emotions are very rarely put into words successfully. — Hunter S. Thompson
It is incumbent upon us to understand our greatness and believe in it so that we do not cheapen and profane ourselves. — Meir Kahane
The wisdom of literature is quite antithetical to having opinions. 'Nothing is my last word about anything,' said Henry James. Furnishing opinions, even correct opinions - whenever asked - cheapens what novelists and poets do best, which is to sponsor reflectiveness, to pursue complexity. Information will never replace illumination. — Susan Sontag
Scientific truth is too beautiful to be sacrificed for the sake of light entertainment or money. Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles. — Richard Dawkins
What we are entering is a power age, and the importance of the power age lies in its ability, rightly used with the wage motive behind it, to increase and cheapen production so that all of us may have more of this world's goods. The way to liberty, the way to equality of opportunity, the way from empty phrases to actualities, lies through power — Henry Ford
I just don't think pastors should turn their pulpits into public policy platforms. It cheapens the gospel. Our congregation doesn't need another political opinion. They need spiritual revelation. They don't need to think about politics on the weekend. They need to be reminded to seek first the kingdom of God. — Mark Batterson
The Internet, the camera cellphone and the like have not only sped up the world's information uptake, but they have cheapened that which they capture. — Henry Rollins
Power is a big thing in baseball. It can't be cheapened. That is, a fellow has it or hasn't. It isn't a fluke or great accomplishment, like a perfect game. When Mantle connects, it's a tape-measure job. Nobody who ever lived has more power than Mantle. — Gabe Paul
Ah, wasteful woman, she who may
On her sweet self set her own price,
Knowing man cannot choose but pay,
How has she cheapened paradise;
How given for nought her priceless gift,
How spoiled the bread and spilled the wine,
Which, spent with due respective thrift,
Had made brutes men and men divine. — Coventry Patmore
Here are my strong reservations about the wave of computer networks. They isolate us from one another and cheapen the meaning of actual experience. They work against literacy and creativity. They undercut our schools and libraries. — Clifford Stoll
I wouldn't tell you anything about anybody I cared about because it becomes entertainment for other people, and it sort of just cheapens everything in your life. I would never tell you if I was dating anybody. — Kristen Stewart
Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them. — Greta Garbo
To cheapen the lives of any group of men, cheapens the lives of all men, even our own. This is a law of human psychology, or human nature. And it will not be repealed by our wishes, nor will it be merciful to our blindness. — William Pickens
The natural consequence of our submission, even in part, to the system that looks to compelling the export of raw products, the exhaustion of the land, the cheapening of labour, and the export of the labourer. — Henry Charles Carey
I've never believed in cheapening music by going according to what some people think is public taste. — Les Baxter
I am not offering this is a critique of the internet, its just that there are a lot of factors involved. It does offer plenty of possibilities. It also has, it can have, a cheapening effect and I think both exist and I think its true of everything. You could say that about the printing press. — Noam Chomsky
As writer pay declined and teacher pay also, we all started hanging out online. You could say online social networks cheapen our friendships or you could say we were cheapened by a plutocratic power grab and this is all we can afford. — Alexander Chee
I think that selling rights is a bad move commercially, not just morally. It cheapens the songs. When people come to my concerts, they often hold up candles when we do "Let It Be." I don't think they'd do that anymore if the song suddenly became part of an Oldsmobile ad. — Paul McCartney
Megadeth is a legend, and I'm not gonna cheapen it like some of these bands that keep going long after they should. — Dave Mustaine
One is so apt to cheapen a thing when one tries hastily to put it into words, and ever afterward it is never quite the same. — Ruth Sawyer
I'm not much of a revenge person, because I think when you start with revenge it cheapens what you've been through. — Sophia Bush
See how today's achievement is only tomorrow's confusion;See how possession always cheapens the thing that was precious. — William Dean Howells
We've always known you can gain circulation or viewers by cheapening the product, and now you're finding the bad driving out the good. — Walter Cronkite
If people perceive themselves as having very little opportunities to be fulfilled, then it cheapens their life and outlook. The solution is to reverse it; make sure they know opportunities abound. — Michael Lee-Chin
Such is life, my fellow-mummers-just like a poor player that bluffs and feints his hour upon the stage, and then cheapens down to mere nonentity. But let me not hear any small witticism to the further effect that its story is a tale told by a vulgarian, full of slang and blanky, signifying-nothing. — Joseph Furphy
But till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace. Rich she shall be, that's certain; wise, or I'll none; virtuous, or I'll never cheapen her; fair, or I'll never look on her; mild, or come not near me; noble, or not I for an angel; of good discourse, and excellent musician and her hair shall be of what colour it shall please God. — William Shakespeare
One training device is the ergometer. I never owned one, never trained on one, and practically never used one. The few national team tests I took on ergs were dismal failures, which worked wonders to further my dislike of these beastly creatures. Boring. Tedious. Noisy. Ergs have greatly cheapened rowing. Graceless. Greasy. Grim. The erg is to rowing what having sex by yourself is to having sex. Stop it! — Brad Alan Lewis
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