Expenses Quotes

• A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

  Bette Davis

  Happiness, Happy, Want

  "Here’s Bette Davis Ripping Hollywood’s Gender Phobia in 1963" by Louis Virtel, uproxx.com. September 30, 2014.

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• Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Leadership, Money, Business

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.251, Printed for H. Colborn

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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

  Dream, Fear, Insecure

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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 another.

  Milton Friedman

  Party, Pie, Liberty

  Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman (1990). “Free to Choose: A Personal Statement”, p.31, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.

  James Madison

  War, Liberty, Bears

  James Madison (1865). “Letters and other writings of James Madison”, p.471

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• Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage.

  Sam Walton

  Competition, Advantage, Competitive Advantage

  Sam Walton (2012). “Sam Walton: Made In America”, p.317, Bantam

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• Even though work stops, expenses run on.

  Cato the Elder

  Running

  Cato the Elder (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Cato the Elder (Illustrated)”, p.54, Delphi Classics

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• Whatever you know in your heart, live at the expense of anything else.

  John de Ruiter

  Heart, Knows

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• The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.

  Josh Billings

  Pay, Ruins, Comedy

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• Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

  Hannah More

  Forgiveness, Heartbroken, Anger

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.639

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• Western society has many flaws, and it is good for an educated person to have thought some of these through, even at the expense of losing a lecture or two to tear gas.

  Robert B. Laughlin

  Two, Tears, Lectures

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• There are growing concerns that oil companies are making too much in profits at the expense of consumers.

  Pete Domenici

  Oil, Growing, Too Much

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• My dad worked several jobs to pay for my expense in skating.

  Nancy Kerrigan

  Sports, Jobs, Dad

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• Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses.

  Ric Keller

  Years, Immigration, Cost

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• Nobody's profitable at this moment, because recession is on; advertising dollars are down, and expenses are way up. So that kind of belies the situation that you would expect, because the ratings are way up everywhere.

  Brit Hume

  Dollars, Down And, Way

  "PBS NewHour" with Terence Smith, www.pbs.org. January 31, 2002.

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• Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.

  Marquis de Sade

  Peace, War, Order

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• There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people.

  Anwar Sadat

  Happiness, Respect, People

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• You can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example.

  Fred Thompson

  Promise, Example, Substitutes

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• Long gone are the days when hospital stays and surgeries made up the bulk of seniors annual medical expenses.

  Jim Gerlach

  Senior, Long, Gone

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• Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.

  St. Jerome

  Mother, Men, Law

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• Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

  James Madison

  Parent, Liberty, Youth

  "Public Education Isn't Socialism, and Neither Is Liz Warren" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. November 9, 2011.

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• We make a lot of fun at President Clinton's expense. But this transition is going to be tough because it's been 25 years since this guy has gotten laid in the private sector.

  David Letterman

  Fun, Years, Guy

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• People aren't just paying more to fill their gas tanks or when they pay for their heating bills for their home; they are paying more at the grocery store, on air travel and for many other daily expenses.

  Dan Lipinski

  Travel, Home, Air

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• The myth of black women profiting at the expense of black men is the oldest rap around.

  Johnnetta B. Cole

  Rap, Men, Black

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• The will to label will always prevail over what's being labeled,
  usually at the expense of either truth or understanding

  Boyd Rice

  Understanding, Truth Will Prevail, Labels

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