The book-keeping of benefits is simple: it is all…

“The bookkeeping of benefits is simple: it is all expenditure; if any one returns it, that is clear gain (my emphasis); if he does…

— Anonymous

“When you do something simple to someone else, not only this person benefits from your simple act but also there is another person who…

— Isaac Nash

“She liked getting hold of some book... and keeping it to herself, and gnawing its contents in privacy, and pondering the meaning without sharing…

— Virginia Woolf

I was learning book-keeping at the age of 12, but it never stopped me from pursuing literature. Over the years, I grew to love…

— Ashwin Sanghi

Expenditures rise to meet income.

— C. Northcote Parkinson

America does not need to be worried with bailing out a European country that has made irresponsible expenditures, and then all of a sudden,…

— Rick Perry

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

— Charles Dickens

Child-care costs are now the largest family expenditure in much of America, even exceeding the cost of housing.

— Donald Trump

First of all, when you build a restaurant of that phenomenon-I really hate that word "set" and I hate the word "cast" -it is…

— Gordon Ramsay

There is another ground of hope that must not be omitted. Let men but think over their infinite expenditure of understanding, time, and means…

— Francis Bacon

World War II revealed two of the enduring features of the Keynesian Revolution. One was the moral difference between spending for welfare and spending…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short…

— Theodore Roosevelt

A ten per cent reduction in military expenditures per year would be reasonable, coupled with a programme of retraining the workforce and redirecting the…

— Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

To the distracting occupations belong especially my lecture courses which I am holding this winter for the first time, and which now cost much…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

Elect me to office. I will protect and defend the U.S. Constitution. Because there's no constitutional authority for Congress spending on the objects of…

— Walter E. Williams