Expense Quotes

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I think a lot of people get so obsessed with the wedding and the expense of the wedding that they miss out on what the… — Jane Seymour
Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others.… — Thomas Sowell
If you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology, and the growing fragmentation of the consumer market were… — James Surowiecki
Until the nineteen-seventies, Western countries paid little attention to corruption overseas, and bribery was seen as an unpleasant but necessary part of doing business there.… — James Surowiecki
No expense has been incurred but what has been approved of and provided for by Parliament. — Robert Walpole
Any seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the customer,… — John Wanamaker
For all the tough talk about China during the presidential debates, Romney and Obama evaded any mention of China's suspect human rights record, corruption, and… — Ai Weiwei
Lightness, jesting, and joking, can only be indulged at the expense of barrenness of soul, and the loss of the favor of God. — Ellen G. White
Riches and the things that are necessary in life are not evil in themselves. And all of us face cares and troubles in this life.… — David Wilkerson
Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more. — William Wordsworth
Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others -… — Frances Wright
any experiment of interest in life will be carried out at your own expense — John Wilmot
It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than… — Adam Smith
Two kinds of people are good at foreseeing danger: those who have learned at their own expense, and the clever people who learn a great… — Baltasar Gracian
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligenceâ€“ whether much that is… — Edgar Allan Poe
The word â€˜slaveryâ€™ and â€˜rightâ€™ are contradictory, they cancel each other out. Whether as between one man and another, or between one man and a… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Today the devil as a wolf in supposedly a new suit of sheepâ€™s clothing is enticing some men to parrot his line by advocating planned… — Ezra Taft Benson
The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against… — Samuel Adams

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