If we don't invest now in so-called priority neighbourhoods with music classes, athletic facilities, and skills training and mentoring, we will all pay more in the long run.
In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn't the initial cost, it's the humidity.
Without intervention today, the cost of care for adults with autism will be significantly greater and the burden will no longer lie with the parents, but on our entire society.
What good will a tax break do me if I'm crippled for life?
Tis easier to build two chimneys, then to maintaine one.
Natural selection does not give any preference at all to anything that, in the long run, could be advantageous for the species but blindly rewards everything that, momentarily, affords greater procreative success.
The long-term cost of a welfare society is the infantilization of the population.
If you take a candy bar in the short run, it gives you a burst of energy, but after a while, it just makes you fat.
The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.
Am I crazy to spend [millions] in contracts when I have the chance to get three layers deep into the playoffs?
I find man utterly unaware of what his wealth is or his fundamental capability is. He says time and again, "We can't afford it." For instance, we are saying now that we can't afford to do anything about pollution but after the costs of not doing something about pollution have multiplied many fold beyond what it would cost to correct it now, we will spend many fold what it would cost us now to correct it.
It is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
I lived and breathed football. Now I have difficulty walking because of that: because I gave much more than I actually had to give.
The real cost is always more than just the money you shell out.
Investing in [children] is not a national luxury or a national choice. It's a national necessity. If the foundation of your house is crumbling, you don't say you can't afford to fix it while you're building astronomically expensive fences to protect it from outside enemies. The issue is not are we going to pay - it's are we going to pay now, up front, or are we going to pay a whole lot more later on.
Retreat might give us a moment of respite but years of repentance at our weakness would, I believe, follow.
Cheap booze is a false economy.
Frugality, I've learned, has its own cost, one that sometimes lasts forever.
All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenue.
Everywhere you turn you see Americans sacrifice their long-term interests for a short-term reward.
Let a gentleman be known to have been cheated of twenty pounds, and it costs him forty a-year for the remainder of his life.
The military is focusing only on the short run costs. If they don't provide appropriate body armor, they save some money today, but the healthcare cost is going to be the future for some other president down the line. I view that as both fiscally and morally irresponsible.
If you could be happy, really happy, for just a while, but you knew from the start that it would end in sadness, and bring pain afterwards, would you choose to have that happiness or would you avoid it?
