“ With debt servicing ratios at record highs, house prices likely to remain soft and petrol prices stressing some household budgets a sharp resurgence in consumer spending seems unlikely. ”
- Bill Evans- Copy
- 1.6K
“ John Kerry's campaign attacks on gas prices ignore the reality of Kerry's long record of supporting higher gas prices and blocking the president's comprehensive energy plan. ”
- Steve Schmidt- Copy
- 1.4K
“ I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes. ”
- Edward Gibbon- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Politicians are always saying that they are in support of Iraqi citizens and now they are increasing the price of petrol. We were oppressed for 35 years. We are like a sick patient who is in need of care, and they are increasing prices. ”
- Muhammad Ali- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life. ”
- Robert Byrne- Copy
- 2K
“ Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth. ”
- Johann Georg Zimmermann- Copy
- 412
“ Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable. ”
- Lord Chesterfield- Copy
- 456
“ A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live. ”
- Voltaire- Copy
- 612
“ Of children as of procreation - the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable. ”
- Evelyn Waugh- Copy
- 2.3K
“ The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete. ”
- Confucius- Copy
- 1.3K
“ In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment. ”
- Charles Darwin- Copy
- 3.4K
“ The state is the great ficticious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else. ”
- Frederic Bastait- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
- 1.2K
“ If the happiness of the mass of mankind can be secured at the expense of a little tempest now and then, or even of a little blood, it will be a precious purchase. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
- 2.7K
“ A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else. ”
- Bette Davis- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them. ”
- Jean de La Fontaine- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Can you support the expense of a husband or hussy in gaming, drinking and whoring? Have you money enough to carry on the daily quarrels of man and wife about who shall squander most? ”
- John Gay- Copy
- 490
“ Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses. ”
- Cato the Elder- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase. ”
- John Balguy- Copy
- 141
“ Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 74
“ Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him. ”
- Jean de La Fontaine- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
- 836
“ Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another. ”
- Joan C. Harvey- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. ”
- Frederic Bastiat- Copy
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