#old

Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased. ↗

— Adam Smith

#first #gold #labour #money #original

The Romans, we are told, were by nature a peculiarly warlike race. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#peculiarly #race #romans #told #warlike

Our South Australian farmers left their holdings in the hands of their wives and children too young to take with them, but almost all of them returned to grow grain and produce to send to Victoria. ↗

— Catherine Helen Spence

#australian #children #farmers #grain #grow

I'm 33 years old now. I really want that ring. I got a taste of it here. ↗

— Latrell Sprewell

#here #i #now #old #really

The truth will only be told over a career. ↗

— Richard Linklater

#only #over #told #truth #will

The main part of the Hyde bill is to withhold U.S. contributions to the regular assessed budget of the U.N. unless they make real and substantial reforms in the way they operate. ↗

— Cliff Stearns

#bill #budget #contributions #hyde #main

I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill. ↗

— Ben Stein

#being #getting #getting old #i #i am

The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves. ↗

— Ben Stein

#bought #credit #default #did #funds

I've been reading horror since I was five years old. ↗

— George Stephen

#five #horror #i #old #reading

Unlike most other children, - especially unlike those of today - who are eager to become men and women as speedily as possible, I had a terror of growing up, which became more and more accentuated as I grew older. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#become #children #eager #especially #grew