Free advice is worth the price.
—Robert Half
What you get free costs too much.
—Jean Anouilh
If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character…would you slow down? Or speed up?
—Chuck Palahniuk in Invisible Monsters
There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, which demanded that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.
—Norman Mailer
The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.
—Flip Wilson
There is a well-worn adage that those who set out upon a great enterprise would do well to count the cost. I am not sure that this is always true. I think that some of the very greatest enterprises in this world have been carried out successfully simply because the people who undertook them did not count the cost; and I am much of the opinion that . . . the most instructive consideration for us is the cost of doing nothing.
—Thomas Henry Huxley