Expenses Quotes
565 Expenses quotes by 457 unique authors
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In the struggle for supremacy the various political parties outdo each other in trickery, deceit, cunning, and shady machinations, confident that the one who succeeds…
— Emma Goldman
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The average mind is slow in grasping a truth, but when the most thoroughly organized, centralized institution, maintained at an excessive national expense, has proven…
— Emma Goldman
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So far as the object of taxation is to raise a revenue for discharging the debts and defraying the expenses of the community, its operation…
— John Quincy Adams
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Once you get the government involved in agriculture you'll have nothing but problems and expenses.
— Ron Paul
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Liberal that I am, I support health-care reform on its merits alone. My liberal blood boils, for example, when I read that half of the…
— Thomas Frank
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Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of…
— Milton Friedman
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My approach to 'Star Trek' was, 'I know science fiction, and I know screen writing.' That was very arrogant of me, but you really need…
— David Gerrold
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I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes.
— Edward Gibbon
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Spare no expense to save money on this one.
— Samuel Goldwyn
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People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.
— Norman Cousins
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It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson... even at the expense of my conscience and judgement.…
— Davy Crockett
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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
— Bette Davis
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Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else's expense. And I find that that's just a form of bullying in a major…
— Ellen DeGeneres
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I charge my wealthy clients a lot and put 10 per cent in a fund which I use to pay the expenses of my poorer…
— Alan Dershowitz
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Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism.
— Terry Eagleton
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I think it would help tremendously to have a senator that knows where jobs come from, that knows how to create them, that knows how…
— Carly Fiorina
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
— Jean de La Fontaine
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
— Jean de La Fontaine
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One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
— E. M. Forster
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Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.
— E. M. Forster
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
— Gary Hamel
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The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the…
— Sam Harris
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