John Donne Quotes

Every advantage has its tax.

You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

There is no decision that we can make that doesn't come with some sort of balance or sacrifice.

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.

Politically, you can’t do pain without the gain.

You never gain something but that you lose something.

For every loss, there is a hidden gain. And for every gain, there is a hidden loss.

If, along the way, something is gained, then something will also be lost.

Whatever you compromise to gain, you will lose.

Every one fastens where there is gaine.

What you gain here, you lose on the other side.

For everything you gain, you lose something.

BAIT, n. A preparation that renders the hook more palatable. The best kind is beauty.

You might win some, but you just lost one.

Everything good I've ever gotten in life, I only got because I gave something else up.

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

it is true that nothing is gained without something being lost: everyone knows that in fulfilling oneself one necessarily sacrifices some possibilities.

Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this

Leave a door open long enough, a cat will enter. Leave food, it will stay.

One of the most basic and pervasive social processes is the sorting and labeling of things, activities, and people... Sorting and labeling processes involve a trade-off of costs and benefits. In general, the more finely the sorting is done, the greater the benefits - and the costs... Sorting and labeling, whether of people or of things, is a sorting and labeling of probabilities rather than of certainties.

There is no such thing on this earth as something for nothing.

If I were asked to think up a new name for temptation, I should recommend the word 'doorknob', because what are these protuberances put on doors for if not to tempt us.

Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.

Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.