Expenses Quotes - Page 4

• Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Government, Second Amendment, Liberty

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• That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend.

  Minna Antrim

  Historical, Praise, One Woman

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• The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.

  Townsend Harris

  War, Habit, Increase

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• I was pursuing the inner path at the expense of the rest of my being and the rest of the world.

  Satish Kumar

  World, Path, Walking

  "Walking The World For Peace". Interview with Robert Gilman, www.context.org. 1987.

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• Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.

  William Wordsworth

  Thinking, Idols, Adore

  William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems by William Wordsworth: Including Lyrical Ballads, and the Miscellaneous Pieces of the Author”, p.211

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• No expense has been incurred but what has been approved of and provided for by Parliament.

  Robert Walpole

  Parliament, Has Beens, Approved

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• If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin.

  Benmont Tench

  Song, Attention, Sin

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• Almost anything makes me laugh, especially jokes at my own expense. And I will never, ever admit to being ticklish anywhere.

  Judd Nelson

  Laughing, Ticklish, Make Me Laugh

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome .

  Maria Weston Chapman

  Prayer, Sacrifice, Yield

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• Know the difference between your necessary and discretionary expenses.

  Alexa Von Tobel

  Differences, Knows

  "What To Expect (Financially) When You’re Expecting" by Alexa von Tobel, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 18, 2011.

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• Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies.

  Warren Buffett

  Investing Money, Investment Success, Enemy

  Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Chairman's Letter, www.berkshirehathaway.com. 2004.

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• You can't control income. It varies based on conditions outside of [your] control. But you can control expenses.

  Sanford I. Weill

  Income, Banking, Conditions

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• For there to be an expense, there must be income somewhere else

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Somewhere Else, Income

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• Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Depression, Spring, Science

  Edgar Allan Poe (1927). “Tales by Edgar Allan Poe”, p.117, Dimitrios Spyridon Chytiris

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• Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

  Jane Austen

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Girl

  Jane Austen, J. B. Austen Leigh (1898). “Mansfield Park”

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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

  Life, Joy, Preparation

  'Howards End' (1910) ch. 7

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• Spare no expense to save money on this one.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Book, Beer, Drink

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

  Theophrastus

  Time, Waste, Extravagant

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• And with the money from your corn, from your rents, and from the issues of pleas in your courts, and from your stock, arrange the expenses of your kitchen and your wines and your wardrobe and the wages of servants, and subtract your stock.

  Robert Grosseteste

  Wine, Issues, Kitchen

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• Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Flattery, Flatterer

  "The Fables of La Fontaine: Book I". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1668.

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• In fact, this is a blackmail of the terrorists at the expense of the suffering of the hostages.

  Alberto Fujimori

  Suffering, Facts, Terrorist

  Interview With Lucia Newman, www.cnn.com. January 8, 1997.

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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 social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Health, Men, Fruition

  Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby: Or, The New Generation”, p.96, London : H. Colburn

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• Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Human Nature, Flatterer

  "The Fables of La Fontaine: Book I". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1668.

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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

  Children, Class, Literature

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• Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses.

  Keith Henson

  Military, Movement, Social

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