Quotes About Expense

None of us wants to pay more at the pump.

Just don't go to a place where everything is too expensive... it'll put your husband in a bad mood.

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

In 1980, it cost just under $600 to take a round-trip flight within the United States.

Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose.

Wars are expensive and dangerous. They're not political winners.

It's very expensive to treat your dog, and thankfully, I was able to do that.

I carry my own film guys with me now. People think that's a huge expense, but with technology like it is these days, it's not. You can film videos and everything with a Canon Mark II, and shoot a movie. They're doing it for next to nothing, by comparison. I can do ten videos for a project for the price of one mainstream video in the past.

The most expensive single undertaking of the Second World War was the B-29 Bomber, the Superfortress. The second most expensive was the Manhattan Project, the massive, unprecedented effort to invent and build the world's first atomic bomb. But the third most expensive project of the war? Not a bomb, not a plane, not a tank, not a gun, not a ship. It was the Norden bombsight, the fifty-five-pound

The most expensive single undertaking of the Second World War was the B-29 Bomber, the Superfortress. The second most expensive was the Manhattan Project, the massive, unprecedented effort to invent and build the world's first atomic bomb. But the third most expensive project of the war? Not a bomb, not a plane, not a tank, not a gun, not a ship. It was the Norden bombsight.

There is cost for everything.

Good teachers cost a lot; but, poor teachers cost a lot more.

In those days, I tried to operate on a 2 percent general office expense structure. In other words, 2 percent of sales should have been enough to carry our buying office, our general office expense, my salary, Bud's salary—and after we started adding district managers or any other officers—their salaries too. Believe it or not, we haven't changed that basic formula from five stores to two thousand stores.

Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially for the lower classes of people, are so extremely wise and useful that to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.

Everything in life has its price.

To gain a livelihood at the expense of all that makes life worth the having.

The need to project an image of power at the expense of one's true feelings is characteristic of narcissistic personalities.

Chicago's success is no longer symbiotic with its rural neighbours. It comes at their expense.

Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse.

Comedies are just never that expensive quite frankly. They really aren't. We aren't doing green screen shooting, so even Hangover II in Bangkok might seem like it's expensive, you're flying over and back, but they're just not that expensive to make when you do it the way we do it which is very focused and I've done it before.

I only became involved in politics when democracy returned to Bolivia. Then, unluckily in democracy, we ran into the inheritance of 20 years of military government, a great deal of debt, and a great deal of expense.

I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me... don't make no big fuss over me. Don't make no big expense on my funeral. Don't put any pressure on the rest of the family. I've loved everybody, and I hope they loved me. But don't create this big expense for the family.'

He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.

The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.