A Quote by Mary Wortley Montagu

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

Mary Wortley Montagu

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Civility Costs Everything Nothing

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Mary Wortley Montagu
English - Writer
May 26, 1689 - August 21, 1762

Courtesy costs nothing, but buys everything.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

He that buys land buys many stones, He that buys flesh buys many bones, He that buys eggs buys many shells, But he that buys good ale buys nothing else.

John Ray

The human animal is a beast that eventually has to die. If he's got money, he buys and he buys and he buys. The reason he buys everything he can is because of some crazy hope that one of the things he buys will be life everlasting.

Burl Ives

There is nothing costs less than civility.

Miguel de Cervantes

Nothing costs less nor is cheaper than compliments of civility.

Miguel de Cervantes

Use the freest goods for happiness... The stars cost nothing. Nature costs nothing. Your inner life costs nothing. God costs nothing. And yet they are all infinitely precious.

Robert Muller

It takes two seconds to tell the truth and it costs nothing. A lie takes time and it costs everything.

Randi Rhodes

To come to Christ costs you nothing, to follow Christ costs you something, to serve Christ will cost you everything.

M. R. DeHaan

The gospel costs nothing. We cannot buy it or earn it. It can only be received as a free gift, compliments of God’s grace. So it costs nothing, but it demands everything. And that is where most of us get stuck — spiritual no-man’s-land. We’re too Christian to enjoy sin and too sinful to enjoy Christ. We’ve got just enough Jesus to be informed, but not enough to be transformed.

Mark Batterson

Politeness costs nothing. Nothing, that is, to him that shows it; but if often costs the world very dear.

William Allingham

One of the biggest reasons for higher medical costs is that somebody else is paying those costs, whether an insurance company or the government. What is the politicians' answer? To have more costs paid by insurance companies and the government. ... [H]aving someone else pay for medical care virtually guarantees that a lot more of it will be used. Nothing would lower costs more than having each patient pay those costs. And nothing is less likely to happen.

Thomas Sowell

It costs nothing to dream and everything not to

Rodney White

A typical guy who buys organic food doesn't really buy it in order to be healthy; he buys it to regain a kind of solidarity as the one who really cares about nature. He buys a certain ideological stance.