Expense Quotes

Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.

Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

The Super Bowl isn't for kids, I had a great time though and it was worth every nickel of it because by doing this lame piece about the game I can put it on my expense account.

Riches and the things that are necessary in life are not evil in themselves. And all of us face cares and troubles in this life. The sin comes in the time and energy we spend in pursuing these things, at the expense of neglecting Christ.

That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend.

Washing dishes as a 17-year-old in an Oxford college and seeing the privileged lifestyles of the undergraduates there convinced me that a system that allowed luxury for the few at the expense of the many needed to be challenged.

Then hast our the Red Stone perfect with less labour, expense of time and costs, for the which ever thank God.

The Center for Immigration Studies found that illegal immigrants cost the United States taxpayer about $10.4 billion a year. A large part of that expense stems from the babies born each year to illegal immigrants.

There are growing concerns that oil companies are making too much in profits at the expense of consumers.

He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.

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

The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes at the expense of the very hours of the lifetimes they had hoped to live.

Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.

In fact, this is a blackmail of the terrorists at the expense of the suffering of the hostages.

I make fun of situations and try and find the humor in things, but it's never at the expense of the other guy.

Tax breaks can serve a vital role in keeping and bringing jobs to our state; however, without accountability, they are little more than loopholes at taxpayers' expense.

Western society has many flaws, and it is good for an educated person to have thought some of these through, even at the expense of losing a lecture or two to tear gas.

I cannot go to the Opera, because I have forsworn all expense which does not end in pleasing me.

I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.

History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other?

A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.

The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income.

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

Altogether apart from that, it would be a disgrace to us to make this bargain with Germany at the expense of France, a disgrace from which the good name of this country would never recover.

Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals.

And the biggest, coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly.

People aren't going to go bankrupt anymore if they have a serious illness, which was a serious issue here in the country before the Affordable Care Act. And, in fact, the expense of expanding health care for those who need the subsidy is picked up by the federal government for most of the early years.

There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people.