If the happiness of the mass of mankind can be secured at the expense of a little tempest now and then, or… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
..no meal is good enough to justify all the money and effort wasted in preparing it. It is an illusion and an… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not so as to degrade other countries. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
For 60 years, my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region, here in the Middle… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Men generally pay for all expenses on a date ... either sex, however, may bring a little gift, its value to be… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
It seems hopeless, hopeless. Those who eat meat [at public expense] are a mean, selfish lot, and so the country is doomed.… — Yoshida Shoin Copy Share Image
A man who has drank his drinks cold at the same expense for one week can never be presented with them warm… — Frederic Tudor Copy Share Image
How wide is all this long pretense! There is in love a sweetness ready penned, Copy out only that, and save expense. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
One of these days you're going to a mansion that isn't going to cost you anything!-No upkeep, no expense, absolutely nothing except… — David Berg Copy Share Image
It is too often forgotten that when the Europeans gained enough maritime skills and gunpowder to conquer most of the world, they… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness about us at little expense. Some of them will fall on good ground,… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Loving behavior contributes to the group at the expense of the individual. Competition contributes to the survival of the individual at the… — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
Our fellow-citizens think they have a right to full information, in a case of such great concernment to them. It is their… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In the Washington soft money game, big business and big labor are accomplices working together to protect the mushy middle of big… — John McCain Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people get so obsessed with the wedding and the expense of the wedding that they miss out… — Jane Seymour Copy Share Image
Parades should be classed as a Nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison. They stop more work, inconvenience… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Good government cannot be found on the bargain-counter. We have seen samples of bargain-counter government in the past when low tax rates… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I Must warn you, Iris, that I'm not a believer. And though I'm sure that the revelations of other men must be… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The obscenities of this country are not girls like you. It is the poverty which is obscene, and the criminal irresponsibility of… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
Discussing the attempts of Augustus' generals to add to the extent of the Roman Empire early in his reign: The northern countries… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
In a dating and courtship relationship, I would not have you spend five minutes with someone who belittles you, one who is… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
The path to a better future goes directly through our public schools. I have nothing against private schools, parochial schools and home… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
We need others for our physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Without others we are nothing. Our sense that we are an island,… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There needs no small degree of address to gain the reputation of benevolence without incurring the expense. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt are indications soliciting the employment… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When any man accumulates more than he can earn with his own hands, he begins to enrich himself at the expense of… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have to have energy because I have a lot of expenses. A couple of cars, couple of dogs and a big… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
Not think of death as an end, but think of it more as a very effective way of cutting down on your… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
When kindness comes at the expense of truth, it is not a kindness worth having. And when generosity leads to silence or… — Rachel Simmons Copy Share Image
My teacher sent me all over the world to talk about meditation - Europe, all over America, Canada. I would drive thousands… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A moral rule is essentially 'advantage-reducing.' It prohibits you doing something you could do that would serve your interests at someone else's… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
Towering genius...thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
One should connect language learning with either work or leisure. And not at the expense of them but to supplement them. — Kató Lomb Copy Share Image
Man's destiny lies half within himself, half without. To advance in either half at the expense of the other is literally insane. — Philip Wylie Copy Share Image
In the United States large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation’s funeral at our expense. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Many people spend their life always worrying about whether they have enough to cover expenses. They experience unhappiness. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You can't control income. It varies based on conditions outside of [your] control. But you can control expenses. — Sanford I. Weill Copy Share Image