Expense Quotes

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.

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

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.

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don't think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense, and in the most honorable manner.

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Put no inscription over the grave, except the date of my birth and my death; and, wherever I am buried, let the funeral be perfectly private, with as few persons attending, and as little show and expense as possible.

Looking at the purpose of our government toward the Indians, we find that after subjugating them it has been our policy to collect the different tribes on reservations and support them at the expense of our people.

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.

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 way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else's feelings.

A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

The income from sales now covers the expense of materials but I expect this to improve.

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. such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles.

One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.

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

Spare no expense to save money on this one.

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

Even in a time of fiscal austerity, education is more than just an expense.

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.