Expense Quotes

Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them. (Jean de La Fontaine)
The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else. View quote
Frédéric Bastiat
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature. View quote
Montesquieu
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. View quote
Edmund Burke
Of children as of procreation-the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone. View quote
Frédéric Bastiat
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. View quote
Hannah More
Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of... revolutionary avant-gardism. View quote
Terry Eagleton
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. View quote
Jane Austen
War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses. View quote
Smedley Butler
I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist's hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else. View quote
Bette Davis
No slave system has ever been able to continue to function on the slaves provided by its own biological reproduction because the rate of human reproduction is too slow and the expense from infant mortality and years of unproductive upkeep of the young make this prohibitively expensive. This relationship is one of the basic causes of the American Civil War, and was even more significant in destroying ancient Rome. View quote
Carroll Quigley
Stephen had spared no expense in making himself more unhappy, his own position as a rejected lover clearer. View quote
Patrick O'Brian
Riches and the things that are necessary in life are not evil in themselves. And all of us face cares and troubles in this life. The sin comes in the time and energy we spend in pursuing these things, at the expense of neglecting Christ. View quote
David Wilkerson
People didn't always see a person with a disability who had to use a ramp or elevator as people who have been given unnecessary privileges. But I run into that often now. People are saying, 'Why do we have to go to great expense for these people?' View quote
Major Owens
Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love have overcome. View quote
Maria Weston Chapman
I have even seen the writings suggesting that I am playing a deep game, that I am using the present turmoil to foist my fads on India, and am making religious experiments at India's expense. I can only answer that Satyagraha is made of sterner stuff. There is nothing reserved and nothing secret in it. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
[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. View quote
John Adams
Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant. View quote
John Adams
I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county, to consist of a few well-chosen books, to be lent to the people of the country under regulations as would secure their safe return in due time. (Thomas Jefferson)
WHEREFORE, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows, that whatever FORM thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expense and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others. View quote
Thomas Paine
The Pacific no longer represents menacing avenues of approach for a prospective invader. It assumes, instead, the friendly aspect of a peaceful lake. Our line of defense is a natural one and can be maintained with a minimum of military effort and expense. View quote
Douglas MacArthur
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. View quote
Lester B. Pearson
During the rule of the Shah, arrogance, aggression, territorial expansion at the expense of the Arabs and attempts to harm Iraq's national sovereignty and the rights of the Arab nation were a constant pattern. Iraq and the Arab nation were regarded as a sphere of influence for the expansionist plans of Iranian interests. That policy has been followed throughout history by the State of Persia against its neighbours to the west, and as we have shown. View quote
Saddam Hussein