The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Science is the most complete presentment of facts with the least expenditure of thought — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
People say, oh we just need charismatic leaders to continue on to Mars. Now we've gone to the moon, of course Mars… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The majority of men cannot be made disinterested for life by exhortation, by religious services, by any expenditure of subsidized works, or… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
We measure poverty by what I believe is a very, very crude concept. We actually measure poverty by trying to get some… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Funeral: a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
A country of a thousand war-chariots cannot be administered unless the ruler attends strictly to business, punctually observes his promises, is economical… — Confucius Copy Share Image
There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditures excludes them. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A comprehensive national energy policy is critical to our nation's economy and our national security. Energy expenditures account for about 7% percent… — Heather Wilson Copy Share Image
Economic stimulation that works through the increased outlays to the affluent has, inevitably, an aspect of soundness and sanity that is lacking… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
If the expenditure of money for entertainment in America is any indication of taste, clearly the majority of us are addicted to… — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
Waste in all its forms is to be abhorred... I deplore giving money to an institution that is careless in its expenditures. — DeWitt Wallace Copy Share Image
Countries, therefore, when lawmaking falls exclusively to the lot of the poor cannot hope for much economy in public expenditure; expenses will… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Take Washington, D.C., which spends over $10,000 per student for education whose student achievement would be dead last if Mississippi chose to… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
The principle of avoiding the unnecessary expenditure of energy has enabled the species to survive in a world full of stimuli; but… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The need for collecting large campaign funds would vanish if Congress provided an appropriation for the proper and legitimate expenses of each… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The book-keeping of benefits is simple: it is all expenditure; if any one returns it, that is clear gain; if he does… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There is an unearthly, mystical element in Friedman's thought. The mere existence of a stock of money somehow promotes expenditure. But insofar… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
Self-love, in a well-regulated breast, is as the steward of the household, superintending the expenditure, and seeing that benevolence herself should be… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Our Lord’s teaching is always anti-self-realization. His purpose is not the development of a man; His purpose is to make a man… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Some government expenditure actually makes a profit. Our theatre leads the world. Loads of tourists must be attracted by the fact that… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
Now we are raising the debt limit 3 times, up to $8 trillion, so that our children and our grandchildren will have… — Chaka Fattah Copy Share Image
What really gets me is this - it's very ironic that those who are most critical of extra tax are those who… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
