Famous quotes containing the words equal, prize and/or money:
“Be it only for a day, it is still a glory without equal to be master of the world just that day.”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)
“It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what we do want, between what we officially admire and secretly desire, between, in the largest sense, the people we marry and the people we love. In a nation which increasingly appears to prize social virtues, Howard Hughes remains not merely antisocial but grandly, brilliantly, surpassingly, asocial. He is the last private man, the dream we no longer admit.”
—Joan Didion (b. 1934)
“Words are wise men’s counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)