Quotes About Expense

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Strive to make proposed solutions as self-executing as possible. As the degree of discretion increases, so too does bureaucracy, delay, and expense.

Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.

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.

Everything has a price.

When I was young in the business, I felt anything I wanted to buy personally and professionally was always too expensive.

There's a science fiction project we really want to make, but it's very expensive. Hopefully it will happen.

Preparing for a future in music is an expensive proposition.

It's too expensive to eat healthy. You ever go to Whole Foods? A carrot is, like, seven dollars. McDonald's got double cheeseburgers for a dollar.

Not addicted to gluttony or drunkenness, this people who incur no expense in food or dress, and whose minds are always bent upon the defence of their country, and on the means of plunder, are wholly employed in the care of their horses and furniture.

Contrary to what many people believe, terrorism is actually a very expensive business.

Tada yori takai mono wa nai [Nothing is more costly than something given free of charge]. -Popular Japanese saying

Alexander Dumas, pere, whose son created the most famous consumptive of all in La Dame aux Camelias, observed in 1847 that "frail pale women come to Nice to die," and he criticized the townsfolk for "living at the expense of the sick foreigners.

A price is something you get. A cost is something you lose.

You can't just go outside and play hockey. It's more of an expensive sport.

Treville understood admirably well the warfare of that period, when, if you did not live at the enemy's expense, you lived at the expense of your compatriots: his soldiers formed a legion of daredevils, undisciplined for anyone else but him.

Treville understood admirably the war method of that period, in which he who could not live at the expense of the enemy must live at the expense of his compatriots.

It seems to me that all of the evil in life comes from idleness, boredom, and psychic emptiness, but all of that is inevitable when you become accustomed to living at others' expense.

Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.

Mere parsimony is not economy…. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part of true economy.

Skiing: the art of catching cold and going broke while rapidly heading nowhere at great personal risk.

Marriage is the most expensive way to get your laundry done for free.

It seemed that there was nothing you could find here that was not expensive and very little that was actually necessary.

No expense has been incurred but what has been approved of and provided for by Parliament.