Quotes about Expense
Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.
- Robert Byrne
And all the men of Judah replied to the men of Israel, “We did this because the king is our relative. Why does this anger you? Have we ever eaten at the king’s expense or received anything for ourselves?”
- 2 Samuel 19:42
Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Who tends a flock and does not drink of its milk?
- 1 Corinthians 9:7
Buying and selling securities on the Stock Exchange do not start new industries. Big business never starts anything new. It merely absorbs, consolidates and profits at the expense of others.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
L]iberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood.
- John Adams
Be it remembered, that liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we have not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood.
- John Adams
The right of war and peace is in the nation. where else should it reside but in those who are to pay the expense?
- Thomas Paine
But, more specifically, you make a conscious choice to absorb the cost yourself.
- Timothy Lane
Mere parsimony is not economy . . . expense, and great expense, may be an essential part of true economy.
- Edmund Burke
She looked at her plate, bitterly, almost as if she were afraid to touch it. "It's the most expensive breakfast I'll ever eat, considering the value of the cook's time and of all those others." "Yes—from one aspect. But from another, it's the cheapest breakfast you'll ever eat—because no part of it has gone to feed the looters who'll make you pay for it through year after year and leave you to starve in the end.
- Ayn Rand
Nothing, not even a horse-breeding establishment, eats cash like a ship, and none gobbles it more greedily than a trireme.
- Steven Pressfield
Cash is not cheap. The physical infrastructure is not easy to maintain and cheap.
- Arundhati Bhattacharya