Khalil Gibran Quotes

Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Not everything is for sale; not everything is about money.

Not everything in the United States is for sale.

Your life is worth much more than gold.

Anything that just costs money is cheap.

All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath--so what does that make today worth?

Wealth is not the standard of worth. Some people put cash before character.

We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth.

Once you pass forty, a dime isn't worth bending over to pick up if you drop one.

How much do they be paying you?" he asked mellowly. "The usual salary. A little more than they think I'm worth and a little less than I think I'm worth.

When you don't have any money, any things, any house - if you are unattached, what is the difficulty in it? But when you have everything and you remain unattached - a beggar in the palace - then something very deep has been attained.

Money wants no followers.

You know what's wrong with our waterfront? It's the love of a lousy buck. It's making the love of a buck, the cushy job, more important than the love of man. It's forgetting that every fellow down here's your brother in Christ.

Think of the millions of young men who died fighting for democracy. We spit on their graves when we let democracy slip away into the sewer of illegal money.

People go on postponing everything that is meaningful. Tomorrow they will laugh; today, money has to be gathered... more money, more power, more things, more gadgets. Tomorrow they will love - today there is no time. But tomorrow never comes, and one day they find themselves burdened with all kinds of gadgets, burdened with money. They have come to the top of the ladder - and there is nowhere to go except to jump in a lake.

How much of our lives could we buy back if we cherished our lives instead of our trinkets?

You are affluent when you buy what you want, do what you wish and don't give a thought to what it costs.

Gold will buy the highest honours; and gold will purchase love.

Never esteem people (including yourself) more because they have money, nor think less of anyone (including yourself) because they lack it. Virtue is the only just reason for respecting anyone, lack of virtue the only reason for holding anyone in low regard.

Gold will never free your father, the price, my dear, is you instead.

A beautiful thing is precious no matter the price

The fundamental problem you have anywhere is when people think their lives and the lives of their children don't matter, they they are somehow disposable, just like a paper napkin after a lunch at a restaurant or something, if we want our freedom to be in deed as well as word in America, we have to make people feel that everybody matters again.

Many people think that happiness comes from having more power or more money.

Remember, you can earn more money, but when time is spent it is gone forever.