Expense Quotes

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All the keys to joy can be reduced to these two. Laugh but at no one's expense and love but without expectation. — Pat McBride
The glory of the nation you love is a desirable end, â€” but generally to be obtained at your neighbor's expense. — John Maynard Keynes
With unfailing consistency, U.S. intervention has been on the side of the rich and powerful of various nations at the expense of the poor and… — Michael Parenti
I make fun of situations and try and find the humor in things, but it's never at the expense of the other guy. — Bob Uecker
Humans were made to work in sweet to earn a living. Those that try to get rich or live at the expense of others all… — Jet Black
With the old economics destroyed, organizational forms perfected for industrial production have to be replaced with structures optimized for digital data. It makes increasingly less… — Clay Shirky
Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don't hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of… — R. Buckminster Fuller
Any consideration of the life and larger social existence of the modern corporate man begins and also largely ends with the effect of one all-embracing… — John Kenneth Galbraith
If there had been any formidable body of cannibals in the country, Harry Truman would have promised to provide them with free missionaries fattened at… — H. L. Mencken
Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy class, living at… — Alexis de Tocqueville
It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense, and… — Edward Everett
Humor simultaneously wounds and heals, indicts and pardons, diminishes and enlarges; it constitutes inner growth at the expense of outer gain, and those who possess… — Louis Kronenberger
Despite the warnings of other times, the impetuous and the confident continue their indiscriminate cultivation of weeds at the expense of occasional flowers. — Gore Vidal
One of the most ordinary weaknesses of the human intellect is to seek to reconcile contrary principles, and to purchase peace at the expense of… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The function of Government must be to favor no small group at the expense of its duty to protect the rights of personal freedom and… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
When we love animals and children too much, we love them at the expense of men. — Jean-Paul Sartre
I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience;… — Samuel Johnson
Raw in the fields the rude militia swarms, Mouth without hands; maintained at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence. — John Dryden
Honesty and wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense! — Nathaniel Hawthorne
In a culture whose already classical dilemma is the hypertrophy of the intellect at the expense of energy and sensual capability, interpretation is the revenge… — Susan Sontag

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