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Quotes About Expense

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
~ James Madison
Not only can filmmaking be expensive, but it's also extremely time consuming, and you can't buy time.
~ James Rolfe
I feel I deserve a little amusement at someone else's expense. That is all. I have worked for it. I have paid for it. And I propose to have it.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
isn't it sometimes more expensive to accept favours than it is to buy them?" He
~ Dorothy Dunnett
When people refer to the problem of teenage pregnancy they may mean one or a combination of several concerns-teenagers having sex, teenagers getting pregnant, teenagers raising children, teenagers having babies out of wedlock, and teenagers having babies at public expense. Does Norplant solve any of these specific problems?
~ Dorothy Roberts
Life is so expensive.
~ Douglas Coupland
buck fifty to make
~ Douglas Preston
You comprehend - I began to look at the case the right way up. Expense no object? Naturally not - to you. Reckless of human life - that, too, since for a long time you have been virtually a dictator and to a dictator his own life becomes unduly important and those of others unimportant.
~ Agatha Christie
Fine bit of building," said Kelsey, looking at it. "It cost us a pretty penny," said Miss Bulstrode, "but we can afford it," she added serenely.
~ Agatha Christie
It's very expensive to maintain pure breed pigs. But I am an animal lover, so it wasn't a problem for me.
~ Ravi Babu
I totally don't believe that things have to be expensive for beauty. In fact, I'm always a little bit wary if they are... because I'm like, 'What kind of chemicals are in there? What's going to happen in ten years, when we find out what the side effects are?'
~ Liz Goldwyn
some things cost more than you realize
~ Radiohead
Our distrust is very expensive.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Effective security measures do not come cheap.
~ Arlen Specter
You have to have a lot of money to go to college. It's not cheap.
~ Luke Evans
An abortion is expensive. Its cost includes pay for the doctor, supporting medical staff, their health benefits packages, and malpractice insurance.
~ Abby Johnson
de sus acreedores, su madre no tuvo más remedio que vender algunas tierras. ¡Quinientos francos en guantes! ¿El oso blanco con guantes blancos? Qué va, qué va; más bien el loro enguantado.
~ Julian Barnes
What about email? You got email on your phone?' Ricky 'Yeah, but I don't really wanna answer them 'cos they're like 70 pence a time or something. I got an email from Oxfam, saying if I wanted to buy some goat again. That's cost me a quid.' Karl
~ Karl Pilkington
I have this terrific make-up man. But he's expensive. I have to bring him in from Lourdes.
~ Bob Hope
A man often pays dear for a small frugality.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man can instruct more than half-a-dozen students at once. The whole problem of education is one of its cost in money.
~ Henry Adams
Film is the cheapest part of the movie making process. The expense is the 100-man crew and the financing and everything.
~ Albert Brooks
The Council of the Royal Society is a collection of men who elect each other to office and then dine together at the expense of this society to praise each other over wine and give each other medals.
~ Charles Babbage
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of living high.
~ Doug Larson