Expenses Quotes · Page 3

Selfishness at the expense of others happiness is demonism.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses.

— Theophrastus

Foreign aid must be viewed as an investment, not an expense.

— Kay Granger

“Marriage," she said quietly, "is the most expensive ticket to nowhere”

— Aryn Kyle

Run lean; avoid unnecessary expenses.

— Richard Branson

Your wedding gift will be our travel expenses.

— Anonymous

It's always tempting to do good at someone else's expense

— Frederic Bastiat

To pursue union at the expense of truth is treason to the Lord Jesus.

— Anonymous

Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the…

— Francis Bacon

Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside.

— William Gilmore Simms

At the end of the day, the question to ask yourself is this: do your expenses, big and small, bring you the…

— Tony Robbins

Active management is a zero-sum game before cost, and the winners have to win at the expense of the losers.

— Eugene Fama

When we love animals and children too much, we love them at the expense of men.

— Anonymous

But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the…

— Jerome K. Jerome

I've reached a new level of closeness with a new friend when I can make a joke at their expense. That's one…

— Kenneth Lonergan

The U.S. is just in a class by itself in military expenses. It basically matches the rest of the world, and it's…

— Noam Chomsky

To say that New York came up to its advance billing would be the baldest of understatements. Being there was like being…

— P. G. Wodehouse

If freedom led to wider inequality, I would prefer that to a world in which I got artificial equality at the expense…

— Milton Friedman

The Pacific no longer represents menacing avenues of approach for a prospective invader. It assumes, instead, the friendly aspect of a peaceful…

— Douglas MacArthur

Through their own actions, customers can hold companies responsible to higher standards of social responsibility. Through collective action, they can leverage their…

— Simon Mainwaring

I get by mostly on speaking engagements, but as soon as I try to pay myself, I end up having to give…

— Angelica Ross

If a door is shut, attempts should be made to open it; if it is ajar, it should be pushed until it…

— Julius Nyerere

The enemy has always been able to point the finger of suspicion and/or guilt to Black leaders that they are enriching themselves…

— Louis Farrakhan

You have to pay attention, like with tours and expenses; you have to factor that all in. You want to play music…

— Zakk Wylde

No slave system has ever been able to continue to function on the slaves provided by its own biological reproduction because the…

— Carroll Quigley

When certain causes become prairie fires, politicians make difficult choices, and often at the expense of someone like Jeremiah Wright and Walter…

— Bill Moyers

My approach to 'Star Trek' was, 'I know science fiction, and I know screen writing.' That was very arrogant of me, but…

— David Gerrold

I leave the governor's office next week, and with it public life[which] has been on the whole a pleasant one. But for…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

As gratitude is a necessary, and a glorious virtue, so also it is an obvious, a cheap, and an easy one; so…

— Seneca the Younger

No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay the taxes, in the end they come out…

— Calvin Coolidge

The measure discriminates definitely against products which make up what has been universally considered a program of safe farming. The bill upholds…

— Calvin Coolidge

If you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology, and the growing fragmentation of the…

— James Surowiecki

Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.

— Horace Mann

Every person shall be free to do good ' at his own expense.

— Milton Friedman

Nothing is certain in London but expense.

— William Shenstone

Avarice fills its purse at the expense of its belly.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Taste is pursued at a less expense than fashion.

— William Shenstone

Protocol is etiquette with a government expense account.

— Anonymous

Expenses should never exceed one percent of our purchases.

— Sam Walton