quotes about Expenses
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If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.
-- Alan King -
Know the difference between your necessary and discretionary expenses.
-- Alexa Von TobelSource : "What To Expect (Financially) When You’re Expecting" by Alexa von Tobel, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 18, 2011.
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For better or worse, there are few things so disarming as one who laughs well at her own expense.
-- Amor TowlesSource : Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.208, Penguin
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Precious gems are profoundly buried in the earth and can only be extracted at the expense of great labor.
-- Anandamayi Ma -
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Even in a time of fiscal austerity, education is more than just an expense.
-- Arne Duncan -
Thou shalt have one God only: who Would be at the expense of two?
-- Arthur Hugh Clough -
The will to label will always prevail over what's being labeled, usually at the expense of either truth or understanding
-- Boyd Rice -
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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses
-- Cato the Elder -
Even though work stops, expenses run on.
-- Cato the ElderSource : Cato the Elder (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Cato the Elder (Illustrated)”, p.54, Delphi Classics
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I'm competitive with myself, not at the expense of everything around me. I never wanted to be a movie star. I just wanted to act.
-- Clive Owen -
Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many,
-- Dick CheneySource : "Iraq crisis: Rarely has a US president been so wrong about so much" by Liz Cheney, Dick Cheney, www.foxnews.com. June 20, 2014.
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If we did not take great pains, and were not at great expense to corrupt our nature, our nature would never corrupt us.
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Being an actor you have a lot of expenses.
-- Esai MoralesSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
-- Gary Hamel -
I'm a competitive person, but I have never understood people's competitiveness at the expense of their colleagues.
-- Geraldine FerraroSource : "Award-winning director Mike Nichols dies at 83" by Victoria Fleischer, www.pbs.org. November 20, 2014.
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Companies that only focus on expense reduction are all but dead as they will find themselves sooner or later unable to reduce anymore.
-- Grant Cardone -
It is the large aggregate of small things perpetually occurring that robs me of all my time. The expense of learning to read might have been spared in my education, for I never read.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
-- Jean de La Fontaine -
Freedom isn't to do what you want at somebody else's expense.
-- John LydonSource : "This is my Britain. Our Britain. Not some German tourist's" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2002.
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any experiment of interest in life will be carried out at your own expense
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To gain a livelihood at the expense of all that makes life worth the having.
-- Juvenal -
Newman has it all worked out. I get a million. He gets a million two, but that includes $200,000 expenses.
-- Lee Marvin -
A feast not profuse but elegant; more of salt [refinement] than of expense.
-- Lord Byron -
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The Bible says we're to be moderate in all things. It's good to help others but not at the expense of your own family.
-- Lori CopelandSource : Lori Copeland (2009). “Unwrapping Christmas”, p.19, Harper Collins
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Doing too much for others (often at their own expense), many persons are more 'human doings' than human beings.
-- Louise HartSource : Louise Hart (1994). “On the Wings of Self-esteem: A Companion for Personal Transformation”
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The sacred exists only at the expense of the truth.
-- Mark RussellSource : Mark Russell, Shannon Wheeler “God Is Disappointed In You”, Top Shelf Productions
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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.
-- Minna Antrim -
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You cannot have security at the expense of the insecurity of others
-- Mohammad Javad ZarifSource : "Don’t abandon the Iran Nuclear Deal, embrace it to build regional peace" by Sam Sasan Shoamanesh, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 17, 2017.
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He is happy in his wisdom who has learned at another's expense.
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
-- Rachel Nichols -
The trade-unionist has the same limitation imposed upon him as the capitalist. He cannot advance his interests at the expense of society.
-- Ramsay MacDonald -
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It’s a basic rule of humor that a joke is always at somebody’s expense. Really good jokes, however, tend to be at everyone’s expense.
-- Richard Kalvar -
That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which he can afford to lose.
-- Richard Whately -
No expense has been incurred but what has been approved of and provided for by Parliament.
-- Robert Walpole -
It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers.
-- Robert Wilson Lynd -
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Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage.
-- Sam Walton -
You can't control income. It varies based on conditions outside of [your] control. But you can control expenses.
-- Sanford I. Weill -
I was pursuing the inner path at the expense of the rest of my being and the rest of the world.
-- Satish Kumar -
I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the expense of everything else in my life.
-- Stan GetzSource : Stan Getz (2017). “Stan Getz - Omnibook: For B-flat Instruments”, p.2, Hal Leonard Corporation
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In Bengal, Hindus are known to crack jokes at the expense of their gods and goddesses and that's what I did.
-- Sunil Gangopadhyaya -
When You Hold Onto Your History, You Do It At The Expense Of Your Destiny.
-- T. D. Jakes -
You become financially free when your passive income exceeds your expenses.
-- T. Harv Eker -
If you have a thrust to make at your friend's expense, do it gracefully, it is all the more effective. Some one says the reproach that is delivered with hat in hand is the most telling.
-- Thomas Chandler Haliburton -
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Avarice fills its purse at the expense of its belly.
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Avoid getting wrapped up in things - especially status purchases - as these often come at the expense of people and relationships.
-- Wanda Urbanska -
Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside.
-- William Gilmore Simms -
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Taste is pursued at a less expense than fashion.
-- William ShenstoneSource : William Shenstone (1868). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.248
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And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life.
-- Madeleine L'Engle -
Ours is an age that's often obsessed with knowledge at the expense of wisdom.
-- Mal Fletcher -
The objective is to enlarge the scope of your advantage which can only happen at someone else's expense.
-- Bruce Henderson -
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It’s a basic rule of humor that a joke is always at somebody’s expense. Really good jokes, however, tend to be at everyone’s expense.
-- Richard Kalvar -
But principles defended at the expense of pragmatic application is the business of priests.
-- Kathleen Parker