Quotes About Spending

You won't let me buy any clothes. Now you won't let me buy a road map, either! I need to spend some money or I'm going to go crazy!

Remember what I used to tel you when you were a little girl? 'A fool and her money soon part.' Current-day translation? Stop pissing away your assets at Bloomingdale's.

Every year of my working life, I have been fortunate enough to earn more money than I have spent.

Those who spend all they earn always end in penury.

Unnecessary spending makes another man rich and another man poor.

You must learn to spend your money wisely...The main thing is not to have too much money to spend. This I have always found bewildering and a sure pathway to extravagance and foolishness. You only need to look about you among the unhappy members of the sporting set to see what happens when there is too much loose money in the bank.

The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount we could provide clean water, adequate diets, sanitations services and basic education to every person on the planet. And we wonder why terrorists attack us.

Many have observed that Hollywood has the unique talent to 'weave magic spells' in its movies. But that will come to an end, apparently, as Jeremiah tells us that "Her images will be put to shame and her idols filled with terror" (Jeremiah 50:2d). Price Waterhouse Coopers projects that Americans will spend $495 Billion on entertainment in 2013. No other nation on earth spends so much of its national treasure on entertaining itself.

Spend less than what you earn and avoid debt no matter what.

Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted.

Eighty percent of the people of Britain want more money spent on public transport — in order that other people will travel on the buses so that there is more room for them to drive their cars.

Domestic discretionary spending on education and health care and the environment has been growing at 2 to 3 percent a year. He says we have to rein it in, but he ignores the spending category that is the big spike in the budget.

When America began, government cost every citizen $20 (in [2003] money) per year. Taxes rose during wars, but for most of the life of America, spending never exceeded a few hundred dollars per person. During World War II, government got much bigger. It was supposed to shrink again after the war but never did. Instead, it just kept growing. Now the federal government costs every man, woman, and child an average of $10,000 per year.

Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush's tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street.

Kids have too much money these days, if you ask me.

As the flow of patients and cash had continued to rise, Ethan was spending up to six hours each night counting the money.

As a result, the Department of Defense now spends billions of dollars on counternarcotic crusades, and American troops have become an adjunct to many local police forces in the country.

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beauty salon and $19 million to examine gas emissions from cow flatulence, but rejected a healthcare reform bill that would offer affordable

When I have money, I get rid of it quickly, lest it find a way into my heart.

Americans pay less for food than do citizens of any other developed nation.

In addition, California spends nearly $1 billion a year in Medi-Cal services for an average of 780 000 illegal immigrants a month, over and above emergency health services.

I have no one to leave the money to. I'm a single man. I like spending my money.

You get up in the morning after you've slept with someone, and the first person you and your latest conquest bump into is your mum, angrily waving a receipt under your nose and demanding: 'Why have you spent this much on a dress for Kiki Dee?' It's just weird. It really takes the shine off the atmosphere of post-coital bliss.