Expensive Quotes

• A successful life is expensive; it will cost you something to become a champion.

  Mike Murdock

  Successful, Champion, Cost

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• Money does not make you look expensive, it’s taste.

  Zendaya

  Doe, Looks, Taste

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• The best things in life are free

  Luther Vandross

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Song: The Best Things in Life Are Free

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• Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Life, Honesty

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• The best things in life are free - and $19.95.

  Billy Mays

  Sarcastic, Things In Life, Taxes Funny

  Interview with Lloyd Grove, www.entrepreneur.com. October 13, 2008.

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• I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.

  Steve Jobs

  College, Class, Ideas

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• I'm like an expensive menu... you can look but you can't afford!

  Anna Kournikova

  Sports, Tennis, Looks

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• It's very expensive to be me. It's terrible the things I have to do to be me.

  Anna Nicole Smith

  Terrible

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• If you have real, internal value, you don't need a loud, expensive imitation.

  Denis Waitley

  Real, Needs, Imitation

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• Love is for free, just expensive to shop.

  Rick Ross

  Life, Love Is, Shops

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• Tasteful rather than expensive.

  Cornelius Nepos

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• Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

  James A. Baldwin

  Inspirational, Black, Poverty

  Nobody Knows My Name (1961) "Fifth Avenue, Uptown: a letter from Harlem"

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• The failures that we have are sometimes expensive educations.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Sometimes

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• The third rule of life is this: Everything you buy today is smaller, more expensive, and not as good as it was yesterday.

  Andy Rooney

  Yesterday, Today, Life Is

  "Great lines from "60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney". www.cnn.com. November 5, 2011.

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• Never buy anything simply because it is expensive.

  Oscar Wilde

  Luck

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• If you think education is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance.

  Howard Gardner

  Ignorance, Thinking, Trying

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. September 3, 2009.

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• Gifts are free, but maturity is expensive.

  Bill Johnson

  Maturity

  Beni Johnson, Bill Johnson, Danny Silk, Kris Vallotton, Kevin Dedmon (2010). “Spiritual Java”, p.68, Destiny Image Publishers

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• Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Vices, Morality, Virtue

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• It's very expensive to be me.

  Anna Nicole Smith

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• When a thing is bought not for its use but for its costliness, cheapness is no recommendation. As Sismondi remarks, the consequence of cheapening articles of vanity, is not that less is expended on such things, but that the buyers substitute for the cheapened article some other which is more costly, or a more elaborate quality of the same thing; and as the inferior quality answered the purpose of vanity equally well when it was equally expensive, a tax on the article is really paid by nobody: it is a creation of public revenue by which nobody loses.

  John Stuart Mill

  Vanity, Quality, Purpose

  John Stuart Mill (1862). “Principles of Political Economy, with Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy”, p.460

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• Avoid shame, but do not seek glory; nothing so expensive as glory.

  Sydney Smith

  Reputation, Shame, Glory

  Sydney Smith, Sarah Austin, Lady Saba Smith Holland Holland (1855). “A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith”, p.88, London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans

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• Spying is always an expensive method of acquiring information.

  Muriel Lester

  Information, Method

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• So, make a real effort to avoid getting sucked into all the expensive lifestyle habits of typical Americans. Because if you do that, then people with the money will dictate what you do with your life.

  Richard Stallman

  Real, People, Effort

  Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.133, Lulu.com

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• Free love is too expensive.

  Bernadette Devlin

  Love, Love Is, Free Love

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• The four most expensive words in the English language are, 'This time it's different.'

  John Templeton

  Money, Different, Successful Investing

  "The Four Pillars of Investing : Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio". Book by William Bernstein, 2002.

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