Adam Smith Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.”

“Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.”

“I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.”

“Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.”

“Defense is superior to opulence.”

“With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.”

“Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.”

“Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.”

“Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.”

“This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.”