Quotes About Expense

The problem with taxation is that authors can't write off whiskey as a business expense.

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

If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.

A baby-sitter is a teenager who gets two dollars an hour to eat five dollars' worth of your food.

I think a lot of people get so obsessed with the wedding and the expense of the wedding that they miss out on what the real purpose is. It's not about a production number, it's about a meaningful moment between two people that's witnessed by people that they actually really know and care about.

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.

I am horribly poor—and very expensive. I must have a great deal of money.

Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrows all her rays from sense.

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

We must raise resources by curbing wasteful expenditure. That's why I resolved that the hooter culture, where VIPs are provided red-beacon cars at taxpayers' expense, must end.

I soon realised that what had happened on a small scale cannot necessarily be repeated on a larger scale. The stones were so big that the amount of heat required was prohibitively expensive and wasteful.

We should stop wasting taxpayer funds on ridiculously expensive government missions to nowhere that return little value and blaze no useful trail for others to follow. Of course we should spend much more on science - and yes, use robots to do that science when it makes sense.

Conservation is important... water comes at a cost.

Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.

All sacrifices of common sense, and all recourse to plausible political combinations, whether of individuals or of men, are uniformly made at the expense of the majority.

I have very, very low expenditures, but still I manage to spend it all. I guess Hot Pockets are more expensive than I thought.

In addition to lower expense ratios on ETFs, Vanguard charges purchase and redemption fees on several open-end funds. There are no extra fees on Vanguard ETFs although there is a brokerage commission cost to buy and sell shares.

Unfortunately, Scottish anthracite burned faster as well, which made it more expensive. Expense was no problem for the king; he had good Scottish coal shipped to Westminster to warm his palaces. Emulating the king, wealthy Londoners took up the custom. The middle classes began burning coal as well. Coal allowed Londoners to keep warm and feed themselves as the city's population increased rapidly, from roughly 200,000 in 1600 to 350,000 by 1650.

In the early 1740s, Coalbrookdale replaced its own horse-driven pumps with a Newcomen engine, the first time a steam engine was used to make iron, and a major reduction in expense.54 From this point forward, mining advanced rapidly, as an increasing number of steam engines restored old mines previously drowned and kept new mines dry.55

The most expensive part of a building is the mistakes.

Higher taxes to bring down public debt would also put to rest the tawdry rhetoric according to which 'we' should not live at the expense of 'our children' – when the real problem is that the 'better-off' live at everyone else's expense by largely avoiding the social costs involved in the upkeep of their hunting grounds.

Bribery quickly became an integral part of the Russian way of doing business, and the expense of buying a government official was considered the most important part of a new enterprise's starting capital.

me make it clear, if you buy an asset and it's costing you money to maintain it - it is not an investment! There

A clean conscience is expensive, it's the reason most men have to live paycheck to paycheck.