Quotes About Expense

Yachting has long been ruefully likened to standing in a cold shower while tearing up money." 42.

I feel opera is an expression of artistic excellence. To do it is expensive, as there's a requirement for an orchestra, good voices, excellent sets, and the fact that productions generally have only short runs. But I believe it's something we ought to achieve as a nation.

Rural voters believed the Democrats traded millions in campaign cash at their expense. Along came a guy named Trump to give these voters a political voice.

I don't mind if smiles come at my expense, I'm a small price to pay.

In Ukraine one cup of coffee is five dollars!

I cannot imagine why we should be at expense to furnish wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no sort of provision for ours.

There is only a sparse handful of exceedingly rich countries that could begin to afford to maintain the bulimically wasteful expense of an American democracy.

It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense…. They are themselves always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society.

Until 1922, for instance, equerries were expected to pay for their own cartridges when they were shooting with the king.)

Nothing in life is free, you always pay in the end.

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

Good kitchen equipment is expensive, but most items last a lifetime and will pay for themselves over and over again.

People shouldn't go broke making a haunted house. Or, we should pay for our enjoyment, definitely.

Minibars are very appealing, especially when someone else is paying.

If you think health care is expensive now, just wait 'til it's free.

For 'Neer,' we spent about Rs. 70,000 just on the boat.

If you think about those bailouts that happened in 2008, that was a situation in which the government gave, at our expense, enormous sums of money to some of the richest people who have ever existed on Earth.

The thing I've learned most about poverty is how expensive it is to be poor. It's super easy to pay rent every month if you earn enough to pay rent and have a decent job. It's super hard to pay rent if you need a coupon from the state and then need to go find an apartment that will accept that coupon and only that coupon.

Money often costs too much

This is an idea called trickle-down economics. It has a long pedigree—and has long been discredited. As we've seen, higher inequality has not led to more growth, and most Americans have actually seen their incomes sink or stagnate. What America has been experiencing in recent years is the opposite of trickle-down economics: the riches accruing to the top have come at the expense of those down below.21

For war there is always enough. It's peace that's expensive.

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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

Grasping for temporarily higher wages at the expense of placing your job in jeopardy is like burning your furniture to make the house a few degrees warmer.