Quotes About Expense

Musicals are so expensive to put on the stage that you have to have the backing of a corporate, you have to have Universal Studios or Disney or somebody to put in the money.

You really can't spend money on social media unless you really try. Social media is really more about effort than expense.

Sometimes I might feel like [a movie] is kind of a weird idea and if I'm going to get enough money to execute it properly I've got to get somebody in it that is going to justify the expense.

Money often costs too much

An house is of a double nature, viz., one, wherein it is a way and means of expence, the other as it is an instrument and tool of gain.

Avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, we should remember also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it

We could have saved sixpence. We could have saved fivepence. But at what cost?

How wide is all this long pretense! There is in love a sweetness ready penned, Copy out only that, and save expense.

Spare no expense when the investment is thyself.

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

Any book without a mistake in it has had too much money spent on it.

furniture n. habitability improvements (U.S. Navy) The U.S. Navy paid $31,672 for a couch, 20 dining room chairs, and a loveseat for the destroyer USS Kidd. The furniture was called "habitability improvements.

To the extent that these Treasury IOUs are being built into the world's monetary base they will not have to be repaid, but are to be rolled over indefinitely. This feature is the essence of America's free financial ride, a tax imposed at the entire globe's expense.15

Only when a good thing happens to be cheap is a cheap thing good.

Let us consider what we call vicious luxury. No gratification, however sensual, can of itself be esteemed vicious. A gratification is only vicious when it engrosses all a man's expense, and leaves no ability for such acts of duty and generosity as are required by his situation and fortune. The same care and toil that raise a dish of peas at Christmas would give bread to a whole family during six months.

It was never decreed that a god mustn't pay hotel bills.

If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design.

Too much trouble," "Too expensive," or "Who will know the difference" are death knells for good food.

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

Protocol is etiquette with a government expense account.

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion.

I bought some HP sauce the other day. It's costing me 6p a month for the next 2 years.

It's a basic rule of humor that a joke is always at somebody's expense. Really good jokes, however, tend to be at everyone's expense.