Expense Quotes

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.

They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers.

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

The public treasure has been duly applied to the uses to which it was appropriated by Parliament, and regular accounts have been annually laid before Parliament, of every article of expense.

What is especially important is addressing the question of how religion can be enforced through political means and what can be done to create a political environment that, on the one hand, acknowledges the role of religion in society, while on the other hand does not impose one religion on the populace at the expense of all others.

People aren't going to go bankrupt anymore if they have a serious illness, which was a serious issue here in the country before the Affordable Care Act. And, in fact, the expense of expanding health care for those who need the subsidy is picked up by the federal government for most of the early years.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.

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

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.

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 rule of law. By not tackling these controversial topics, the candidates are protecting a strategic partnership with China at the expense of essential human values and beliefs.

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.

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.

The international community is pushing things forward in Bosnia... but it is doing it at expense of the Muslim people. I feel it as an injustice, these are the things that I cannot live with.

Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.

America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music schools with competent teachers, and many, very many, free scholarships for talented young disciples who are unable to pay the expense of study.

Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism.

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

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

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

The objective is to enlarge the scope of your advantage which can only happen at someone else's expense.

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 real purpose is. It's not about a production number, it's about a meaningful moment between two people that's witnessed by people that they actually really know and care about.

Our nation was built by pioneers - pioneers who accepted untold risks in pursuit of freedom, not by pioneers seeking offshore profits at the expense of American workers here at home.

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

Every state has not only the right but the duty to make adequate provision for its own defense in the way it thinks best, providing it does not do so at the expense of any other state.

Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.

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

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