Quotes About Expense

Tuition at the College-on-the-Hill is fourteen thousand dollars, Sunday brunch included.

I rubbed my eyes, getting some eyeliner on my fingers. For what I paid for eyeliner, it shouldn't come off that easily.

The art of writing history is the art of emphasizing the significant facts at the expense of the insignificant. And it is the same in every field of knowledge. Knowledge is power only if a man knows what facts not to bother about.

Travel continues to broaden the mind and slim the wallet.

In our day, death was preferable. But my father was a practical man. My wight in gold was less than the expense of the lavish funeral my death would have demanded.

certainly luxurious for any student—1,800 euros

One million young black men now warehoused in decaying prisons, idling away the days at taxpayer expense. Our prisons are packed. Our streets

Do you want to have free medical care at the expense of other people, whether they wish to provide it or not? But this would require them to work longer for you whether they want to or not, and other men's lives are not yours to dispose of.

These costs include the time, effort, and money spent in the process of doing business—both those incurred by the buyer in addition to the actual price paid, and those incurred by the seller in making the sale.11

In our day, death was preferable. But my father was a practical man. My weight in gold was less than the expense of the lavish funeral my death would have demanded.

There's no way to put a dollar value on values. And yes, there will be times when prioritizing values, especially trust, will come at the expense of profits. In the short term, that is. But the money your company makes in any given quarter will never be more valuable than the trust you stand to lose over time.

By far the biggest expense in this process was shifting the cargo from land transport to ship at the port of departure and moving it back to truck

any experiment of interest in life will be carried out at your own expense

A husband willing to fund a library for his bookish wife is not so easy to obtain; most would see it as a pointless expense. You might, however, find one willing to share his library.

The so-called nouvelle cuisine usually means not enough on your plate and too much on your bill.

Whenever you see the word cuisine used instead of the word food, be prepared to pay an additional eighty percent.

I don't always buy organic food. It is more expensive.

Forgiveness saves the expense of anger.

But the expense worksheets—these are the work papers the accountants generate from the actual receipts, bank statements, that sort of thing—for last year's tax return shows Barnett paid for six hundred twenty-five tanker trucks to deliver frack fluid to well number three-twenty-four on November seventeenth.

The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy it's a permanent feature of life and there's nothing anyone can do about it.

I paid too much for it, but it's worth it.

I was funny -- ha-ha, not peculiar. It was a modest currency, like pennies: pedestrian, somewhat laborious, but a currency nonetheless. I was funny, in public, most often at my own expense.

Come, agree, the law's costly.

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.