Expense Quotes

Nothing of value is free.

Yes, the cost is high, but the price of neglect would be infinitely higher.

Most economic fallacies derive … from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an ever lasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.

There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.

Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.

Few things in life are certain except death and being taxed.

When an actor has money, he doesn't send letters, but telegrams.

For the moment it appeared to me that the United States was trying to save itself at the expense of Britain.

Redundancy is expensive but indispensable.

The most expensive peace is far less costly than the cheapest war.

Some things are worth the splurge.

Getting an advantage at the expense of somebody else—that really is what graft is.

Cock-fighting, which has attained to the dignity of a literature of its own, is the popular Malay sport; but the grand sport is a tiger and buffalo fight, reserved for rare occasions, however, on account of its expense. Cock-fighting is a source of gigantic gambling and desperate feuds.

Fighting a war can cost more in blood and money than any other undertaking in which nations engage.

Free lunches don't come cheap.

I feel bad for people who die on Valentine's Day. How much would flowers cost then, ten grand?

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

Mathematicians are fairly cheap.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

I ain't going to buy no iPhone.

Where the grass is greener, the water bill is bigger.

A.I. didn't ask me to do a bunch of stuff for him. He just wanted me around. Usually we were at the Friday's in Philly, which he should have bought, because he was there so much.

I haven't got the yacht any more. The cost of running it was crazy. But it was so much fun while I had it. I don't regret it.

If you had to buy a new plane every time you flew somewhere, it would be incredibly expensive.