Top 31 Upkeep Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Upkeep

#1. When your outflow exceeds your income, your upkeep becomes your downfall

#2. I'm a mom - I'm lucky if I get to shower in the morning. Luckily, nail polish stays on my toes. I've been so bad on the upkeep, though.

Idina Menzel

#3. Will Rogers once said it is not the original investment in a Congressman that counts; it is the upkeep.

John F. Kennedy

#4. Our thinking tends to be hazy, hasty, narrow, or sprawling-causal terms for impulsive. Just like anything else, thinking skills require upkeep. If they aren't nourished, they'll fade away.

David Perkins

#5. It isn't the initial cost of a lie, it is the upkeep which counts so terribly.

Emilie Loring

#6. The Government cannot afford to have a country made up entirely of rich people, because rich people pay so little tax that the Government would quickly go bankrupt. This is why Government men always tell us that labor is man's noblest calling. Government needs labor to pay its upkeep.

Russell Baker

#7. We have a group of friends of the museum who try to raise, if they can, periodically something to help us. Of course, the main thing about a building like this is its upkeep. It needs central heating and it needs central air conditioning.

Katherine Dunham

#8. Historically, the U.S.'s big launchers fly seldom enough that their costs are dominated by annual upkeep of facilities and staff, not by the actual cost of each launch. The expensive part is maintaining the launch capability, not actually conducting launches.

Henry Spencer

#9. You can tell the idyllic nature of a family by the upkeep of its picnic table. Ours is its own indictment. We are splintering and peeling. We rot.

Peter Hedges

#10. If you can't afford the upkeep of your home, it makes no sense to do a reverse mortgage. You will just end up having to sell eventually when you realize you can't afford the home, and whether you have any equity left after the sale depends on the size of the reverse loan that must be settled.

Suze Orman

#11. You cannot drive with your eyes in the rear-view mirror ... But dignity is difficult to maintain. Stamina requires constant upkeep. Repetition is boring. And you pay for grace.

John Irving

#12. Well, I suppose I've never really had a lifestyle that needs upkeep. I don't get cabs; I'm on the Tube with my Oyster card.

Agyness Deyn

#13. I find the constant upkeep of the body woefully fatiguing, don't you?

Patrick DeWitt

#14. An education is like a crumbling building that needs constant upkeep with repairs and additions.

Edith Wharton

#15. We need money for daily living and upkeep. But money isn't everything.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. When you visit the Zen Monasteries, one of the first things required is that you bring a donation. They have to pay for those monasteries. The upkeep is fantastic. The monks have to be fed, and so on.

Frederick Lenz

#17. When my income exceeds my outgo, my upkeep will be downright easy.

Cynthia Sue Larson

#18. Anyone who has to ask about the annual upkeep of a yacht can't afford one.

J. P. Morgan

#19. One of these days you're going to a mansion that isn't going to cost you anything!-No upkeep, no expense, absolutely nothing except what it's already cost Jesus!-And it will be commensurate with your works on Earth, what you already paid for it down here.

David Berg

#20. I take my personal upkeep real seriously; my sense of organization and attention to detail; my memory; my business - I love the business.

David Lee Roth

#21. Behind the murder of millions of Negroes annually in Africa is the well organized system of exploitation by the alien intruders who desire to rob Africa of every bit of its wealth for the satisfaction of their race and the upkeep of their bankrupt European countries.

Marcus Garvey

#22. I do and always shall maintain that it is the privilege of the richer but less mentally endowed members of the community to contribute to the upkeep of people like myself.

Christopher Isherwood

#23. There is something about my face in the mirrors that catch it. Even at a distance it will never be right again, not even to a casual glance. Beauty: it's the upkeep that costs, that's what Balzac said, not the initial investment.

Joanna Walsh

#24. After his failed political career, Lincoln often pondered the question of the purpose of the meaning of life. In 1850 [ten years before he was elected President], Lincoln told Herdon [his law partner] How hard, oh how hard it is to die and leave one's country no better than if one had never lived.

Ronald C. White Jr.

#25. What do we need spectators for? The game should be played behind closed doors. Football is an art!

Ivan Slavkov

#26. If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe