Top 100 Expense Quotes
#1. The glory of the nation you love is a desirable end, - but generally to be obtained at your neighbor's expense.
John Maynard Keynes
#2. An expense of ends to means is fate;Morganization tyrannizing over character. The menagerie, or forms and powers of the spine, is a book of fate: the bill of the bird, the skull of the snake, determines tyrannically its limits.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#3. 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.
Jeanne Kohl-Welles
#4. Anyone may fairly seek his own advantage, but no one has a right to do so at another's expense.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#5. We were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
Ida Tarbell
#6. [I]t is true that [the provisions of the Bill of Rights] were designed to meet ancient evils. But they are the same kind of human evils that have emerged from century to century whenever excessive power is sought by the few at the expense of the many.
Hugo Black
#7. Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt; 'tis not the intellect, not the heart, not beauty, not worship, that costs so much.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#8. I don't think value to the customer is achieved at the expense of employees' welfare.
Brad Stone
#9. I'm caught somewhere between introversion and extroversion. Performance is natural to me, joyful, but it is also exhausting. I can feed on it, but the expense is high, too, like being a carnivore: I have to chase down my meals.
Nick Harkaway
#10. The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife.
Thomas Jefferson
#11. 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.
Bob Riley
#12. Do not spare any reasonable expense to come at early and true information; always recollecting, and bearing in mind, that vague and uncertain accounts of things [are] ... more disturbing and dangerous than receiving none at all.
George Washington
#13. The truth, however, is that the conflict between religion and science is unavoidable. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.
Sam Harris
#14. Lord Maccon reflected upon the state of his life wherein he had somehow gained a spouse who could not give a pig's foot for the latest dresses out of Paris but who whined about not owning an aethographic transmitter. Well, at least the two were comparable obsessions so far as expense was concerned.
Gail Carriger
#15. The process of schooling does not give birth to human beings - as education should but never will so long as it springs from the collective consciousness of our culture - but instead it teaches us to value abstract rewards at the expense of our autonomy, curiosity, interior lives, and time.
Derrick Jensen
#16. And this is what has taken place. The delusion of the day is to enrich all classes at the expense of each other; it is to generalize plunder under pretense of organizing it.
Frederic Bastiat
#17. People often find themselves achieving victories that are empty, successes that have come at the expense of things they suddenly realize were far more valuable to them.
Stephen R. Covey
#18. The basic principle that we must follow in directing the armies of the Republic is this: that they must feed themselves on war at the expense of the enemy territory.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#19. Oftentimes, those special brains, the ones that are capable of focusing more intently than others, do so at the expense of emotional maturity
Dan Brown
#20. 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.
Russell Brand
#21. It is too dangerous to meddle in the marriage of princes,' he muttered as he withdrew. Arundel made a joke at his expense, saying 'He lost his post as Chancellor that day, for the Queen had usurped it,' which drew wry laughter from the deputation.
Alison Weir
#22. Joey wished there were some different world he could belong to, some simpler world in which a good life could be had at nobody else's expense.
Jonathan Franzen
#23. Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person; they make friendships as kings of old made leagues, who sacrificed some poor animal betwixt them, and commenced strict allies; so the ladies, after they have pulled some character to pieces, are from henceforth inviolable friends.
Alexander Pope
#24. Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.
Barney Oliver
#25. Your heart, the compassionate part of you, knows that it's impossible to feel better at the expense of someone else.
Richard Carlson
#26. [The Democrats] will say that the Reagan administrtion has given benefits to the rich at the expense of the poor - a term that they define broadly to include middle-income people, women, minorities, the aged, the young, farmers, steelworkers, and others.
Herbert Stein
#27. A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his first (or vice versa) and then expects the author to be grateful for what he has done.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#28. Journey over all the universe in a map, without the expense and fatigue of traveling, without suffering the inconveniences of heat, cold, hunger, and thirst.
Miguel De Cervantes
#29. To say that New York came up to its advance billing would be the baldest of understatements. Being there was like being in heaven without going to all the bother and expense of dying.
P.G. Wodehouse
#30. Active management is a zero-sum game before cost, and the winners have to win at the expense of the losers.
Eugene Fama
#31. We believe in healthy, hearty laughter
at the expense of the whole human race, if needs be. Needs be.
H. Allen Smith
#32. Americans deserve both clean air and clean water and never one at the expense of the other.
Carol Browner
#33. Humility allows us to take risks at the expense of our ego.
Praying Medic
#34. Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many,
Dick Cheney
#35. For liberals, generally speaking, honoring procedures - means - is the core of what being 'principled' means. For conservatives, fighting for the right outcome - ends - even at the expense of procedural nicety, is what being 'principled' means.
Rick Perlstein
#36. I think that the cultural dominance of narrative forms that seduce you with character and plot perhaps at the expense of ideas, like The Magic Mountain [won't last]. Starvation sharpens the appetite.
David Mitchell
#37. By allowing businesses to expense up to $75,000, it means somebody is more likely to buy a copying machine, or in this case, an architectural ... fancy machine.
George W. Bush
#38. The amiable is a duty most certainly, but must not be exercised at the expense of any of the virtues. He who seeks to do the amiable always, can only be successful at the frequent expense of his manhood.
William Gilmore Simms
#39. Maybe it's because I look into the future professionally, but I see great possibilities for both humanity and our planet. I don't believe the thriving of one has to come at the expense of the other, and I'm deeply concerned to find out whether other people do think that.
Karl Schroeder
#40. The concept of maximum promotion of human rights to the expense of the majority of people in fact undermines the entire concept of the human community.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#41. It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.
Adam Smith
#42. I was pursuing the inner path at the expense of the rest of my being and the rest of the world.
Satish Kumar
#43. Facts have proved that prosperity at the expense of the environment is only delaying disaster. We cannot passively protect our environment by simply stopping economic development.
Zhou Shengxian
#44. Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.
Albert J. Nock
#45. Don't put needless expense into painting a head! Don't try to match tints! Rose and pearly colours blend into each other so that no one can unite them if painted separately. Keep the impression of your subject as one thing!
William Morris Hunt
#46. If it's within your power to give another person great joy at little or no expense to yourself - or even at great expense - then you should, especially when you love that person.
Penny Reid
#47. 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.
James Fenimore Cooper
#48. I spent most of high school working on the debate team, probably at some expense to my grades. Being a member of the team was great training in critical analysis, organization, and logic.
David Einhorn
#49. Well, what do you owe yourself? Do you dare take time out to listen to the grass grow, or can you even afford the expense of getting far enough away from life's daily cacophony to hear it grow if you took the time?
Vincent Price
#50. Self-realization is a process of permanent auto-creation, an elaboration of the new man at the expense of the old.
Nikolai Berdyaev
#51. It is the concern of every immigrant that their offspring will grow to embrace their adoptive culture at the expense of their natural heritage.
Guillermo Del Toro
#53. The very motivation, the drive behind our demand to understand the laws of nature is to use them for the purpose of continuing the human species at the expense of every other form of life on this planet.
U.G. Krishnamurti
#54. Freedom isn't to do what you want at somebody else's expense.
John Lydon
#55. Once we have reached a certain degree of enfeeblement, whether caused by age or by ill health, all pleasure taken at the expense of sleep, every disturbance of routine, becomes a nuisance.
Marcel Proust
#56. I will either adamantly prioritize my agendas at the expense of the truth, or I will consistently bring my agendas into unrelenting obedience to the truth. And if for some reason you're trying to determine who I truly am, the choice I make will tell you.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#57. The most politically painless way to hand out goodies, without taking responsibility for their costs, is to pass a law saying that somebody else must provide those goodies at their expense, while the politicians take credit for generosity and compassion.
Thomas Sowell
#58. When you become complacent with someone lying, whether it is a close friend, the media, or your government, then you have essentially given them permission to continue to do so and most often at your expense.
Gary Hopkins
#59. Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
Jane Austen
#60. Be at the pains of putting down every single item of expenditure whatsoever every day which could possibly be twisted into a professional expense and remember to lump in all the doubtfulls.
Hilaire Belloc
#61. 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.
Edward Grey
#62. The myth of black women profiting at the expense of black men is the oldest rap around.
Johnnetta B. Cole
#63. Man's destiny lies half within himself, half without. To advance in either half at the expense of the other is literally insane.
Philip Wylie
#64. Strive to make proposed solutions as self-executing as possible. As the degree of discretion increases, so too does bureaucracy, delay, and expense.
Donald Rumsfeld
#65. Success at the expense of goodness is like a beautiful apple tree without apples.
Jonah Books
#66. If I'd been listening closely, I'd have caught the sound of the gods having a great big old tee-hee at my expense.
Sue Grafton
#67. The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense corrupts the purest souls.
Francois Fenelon
#68. 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.
Nathan Deal
#70. I don't want success if it comes at the expense of my soul and I don't need love at the expense of my sanity.
Derrick Jaxn
#71. A family living at the poverty level is unlikely to be able to afford a computer at home. Even with a computer, access to the Internet is another significant expense. A child might borrow a book from a public library; but it is not possible to take a computer home.
Margaret Geller
#72. Why spend money and blood to invade a country and plunder its treasure when you can just buy it from them at less expense and sell them some of your own?
Steven Pinker
#73. To eat fruit is to welcome into oneself a fair living object, which is alien to us but is nourished and protected like us by earth; it is to consume a sacrifice wherein we sustain ourselves at the expense of things.
Marguerite Yourcenar
#74. You were right. My whole crew. Gone. Arrested. Perfect. Shoot me now and save me the expense of a bullet later. (Tory)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#75. I think as a woman it's in our nature to nurture someone else. Sometimes at the expense of ourselves.
Emilia Clarke
#76. We must have design in a picture even at the expense of truth. You are using nature for your artistic needs.
John F. Carlsons
#77. That's the attraction of the conference circuit: it's a way of converting work into play, combining professionalism with tourism, and all at someone else's expense. Write a paper and see the world! I'm Jane Austen - fly me!
David Lodge
#78. To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.
Alexander Pope
#79. - Amy said that would be an imprudent expense; but as soon as he had got a good price for a book. Will not the publishers be kind? If they knew what happiness lurked in embryo within their foolish cheque-books!
George Gissing
#80. As governor, I'm spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.
Jack Markell
#81. Sissy didn't know feeding Mitch would be so enjoyable - except for the expense, of course. He'd pretty much groaned and purred during the whole meal. Everything she put in front of him made him smile, and then he'd feed like he hadn't eaten in days.
Shelly Laurenston
#82. Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.
Scott Adams
#83. being acquisitive on a large scale, cannot have value if it is bought at the expense of others.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#84. G - God's
R - Redemption
A - At
C - Christ's
E - Expense
Paul Silway
#85. Young people wonder how the adult world can be so boring. The secret is that it is not boring to adults because they have learnt to enjoy simple things like covert malice at one another's expense.
Celia Green
#86. Somehow, later, exhausted and dismayed by these sapping, abrasive, attriting episodes, they came to a sort of truce; but it was at the expense of any closeness.
Iain M. Banks
#87. No one was ever the better for advice: in general, what we called giving advice was properly taking an occasion to show our own wisdom at another's expense; and to receive advice was little better than tamely to another the occasion of raising himself a character from our defects.
Anthony Ashley Cooper
#88. We have seen that the tendency of republican governments is to an aggrandizement of the legislative at the expense of the other departments. The appeals to the people, therefore, would usually be made by the executive and judiciary departments.
James Madison
#89. On this question of war, three things are to be considered. First, the right of declaring it: secondly, the expense of supporting it: thirdly, the mode of conducting it after it is declared.
Thomas Paine
#90. Every man wishes to pursue his occupation and to enjoy the fruits of his labours and the produce of his property in peace and safety, and with the least possible expense. When these things are accomplished, all the objects for which government ought to be established are answered.
Thomas Jefferson
#91. When David wasn't ruling, he would ponder all the various forms of laughter there could be. So far, he had only categorized four: laughter at your own expense, laughter at the expense of others, laughter at the human predicament, and laughter at small animals falling off tables.
Jonathan Goldstein
#92. Never build after you are five and forty; have five years' income in hand before you lay a brick; and always calculate the expense at double the estimate.
Henry Kett
#94. Not only does free trade have nothing to do with democracy, but in most cases throughout history the two have been inimical. Free trade prospered only at the expense of democracy and the freedom of the majority.
Michael Hogan
#95. 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.
Steven Soderbergh
#96. Pride costs nothing, yet it is especially precious when it can be "purchased" at someone else's expense.
Andrew Levkoff
#97. Two kinds of people are good at foreseeing danger: those who have learned at their own expense, and the clever people who learn a great deal at the expense of others.
Baltasar Gracian
#98. I am going to put money into education at the expense of other programs.
Dalton McGuinty
#99. God never pursues His glory at the expense of the good of His people, nor does He ever seek our good t the expense of His glory. He has designed His eternal purpose so that His glory and our good are inextricably bound together. What comfort and encouragement this should be to us.
Jerry Bridges
#100. There is absolutely nothing in what Jesus himself or his early followers taught that suggests you can decide just to enjoy forgiveness at Jesus' expense and have nothing more to do with him.
Dallas Willard
