False Value Quotes

What treasures here do Mammon's sons behold! Yet know that all that which glitters is not gold.

Oh, I'm all about small business. I think what we've learned from big business and big Wall Street is that unchecked greed and the creation of false value gets us all in trouble. If we look at the American economy, who's really creating value? It's the small businesses.

Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sell eternity to get a toy? For one grape who will the vine destroy?

Degrade first the Arts if you'd Mankind Degrade. Hire Idiots to Paint with cold light & hot shade: Give high Price for the worst, leave the best in disgrace, And with Labours of Ignorance fill every place.

If the majority holds some thing of value, you can be certain it has none.

Gold can gild a rotten stick, and dirt sully an ingot.

An attempt to gain a value by deceiving the mind of others is an act of raising your victims to a position higher than reality.

Kings do with men as with pieces of money; they give them what value they please, and we are obliged to receive them at their current and not at their real value.

To overvalue something is a form of lying.

Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current.

Many priceless things can be bought.

What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.

Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.

They are but beggars that can count their worth.

They dont understand what real treasure is. They see it in gold and copper, and tin. They see in herds of horses or cattle. They gather treasures to themselves, building great storehouses, which they guard ferociously. Then they die. What good is it then?

It is no wrong or injustice that one has many bags of the finest myrrh and garments embroidered with gold, while another has not those things, which are not necessary for our maintenance; he who has them has not thereby obtained control over anything that could be an essential addition to his nature, but has only obtained something illusory or deceptive. ...This is the rule at all times and in all places; no notice should be taken of exceptional cases, as we have explained.

..no meal is good enough to justify all the money and effort wasted in preparing it. It is an illusion and an expense. Live as I do, undeceived.

Any false value is gonna be fairly boring in Perl, mathematicians notwithstanding.

All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.

However much you paid for a beautiful illusion, you got a bargain.