Quotes About Spending

In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money... and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams.

Everything has an opportunity cost. Money is completely fungible, and so every penny spent on one thing could be spent on something else. The question all of us need to ask ourselves is whether that something else might actually make us or our loved ones happier.

What makes you happy when it comes to money? Write these categories down and keep them in your wallet, or wherever you pay bills.

I don't spend much money on clothes I never did.

The food represented a considerable investment: 1,252,909 maravedís, nearly as much as the cost of the entire fleet

I often buy myself presents. Sometimes I will spend $100 000 in one day in a posh boutique.

We spent as much money as we could and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to give us. We were always more or less miserable, and most of our acquaintance were in the same condition. There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last aspect a rather common one.

France, less favoured on the whole as to matters spiritual than her sister of the shield and trident, rolled with exceeding smoothness down hill, making paper money and spending it. Under the guidance

We spent as much money as we could, and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to give us. We were always more or less miserable, and most of our acquaintance were in the same condition. There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did.

Sometimes cheap is inexpensive. Sometimes it's cheap.

Economy is half the battle of life. It is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well.

Wouldn't it be great if retail therapy was covered by health insurance.

I shop like a bull — I charge everything.

I wouldn't mind giving the feds their cut if they weren't so damn nosy, if any of them actually read the constitution and if they didn't spend every penny on some harebrained scheme.

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.

Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.

Democrats are people who raise your taxes and spend your money on weird stuff. They steal your guns, and they spit on your faith.

Se puede tener un Estado barato con pocas obligaciones o un Estado caro con muchas. En México pretendemos tener un Estado barato con muchas obligaciones.

Todos somos de algún modo clientes y víctimas del Estado deficitario. No queremos pagar lo que cuesta nuestro gobierno. Por eso tenemos un Estado en quiebra que, a la larga, simplemente nos cuesta más.

Everybody seems to have money, but the government is always broke. Deficit spending--and always the vital social services for which the government has to spend money. The most vital one, of course, is buying votes to keep the government in power. And it gets harder for the government to get anything done.

You put me in mind of a man who spent his last cent on Ex-Lax and forgot the pay toilet cost a dime.

I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.

The easiest thing that is done, unfortunately, in Washington is to spend money today and send the bill to our children and grandchildren.

People are unhappy with the direction of the country - we saw that with the rise of the Tea Party; we saw that when we had thousands of people at the statehouse in Concord, New Hampshire, protesting the government with more taxes and more spending.