Unnecessary Expense Quotes

I'm not a big lingerie girl. I see it, and I love it, and I appreciate it, and sometimes I even buy it, and then it never gets worn. It just seems like kind of a wasted middle step. Either you're dressed or you're not. What is this in-between stuff?

Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse.

It makes no sense to pack an auditorium with 5,000 people and then tell them to keep quiet.

I once bought a winter jacket on one of my travels abroad - definitely an extravagant purchase because I hardly have any use for it, since I live in Mumbai!

One of the biggest mistakes people make when they cook for other people is to think that it has to be fancy and elaborate. This results in enormous expense and nine days of labor, plus you end up trying to assemble a croquembouche in front of your guests and everyone's experiencing flop sweat.

An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.

There are some phone calls where it's not even worth wasting the electrons on.

Base closings [are] the most atrocious waste of money I have ever seen in my life.

I don't mean to in any way impugn the makers of Bentley, but that car is nuts. When I do drive, I drive a Toyota Prius. So driving around the streets of Albuquerque in a Bentley made me feel so fake-a-rooney.

I'm trying to forget how much that cost, but I just had to have them.

I do know people who buy these huge houses but I always think, 'What about all that furniture? You're never even going to sit on it!' I don't want to rattle round in a big house.

Don't look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack.

Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose ...

I'm not a fan of 3D as an audience member. I'm too old for it. I don't like wearing the glasses over my glasses.

What is OK is to spend money for productivity. What is not OK is just to light money on fire.

A man's face is not a rich person's lawn; you are wasting resources if you devote that much energy to trimming your beard, sideburns, or mustache just so. Nor is a man's face the woods; there need not be the tangled weeds, shrubbery, and wildlife/eggs benedict that get ensnared in them.

I want to know who is spending $1,000 on a sweater! That makes no sense!

Two weeks in Hawaii with four kids is one of the dumber ideas I've ever had.

When I see a sneaker for over $400, for me, that's kind of brainless because it doesn't cost that much to make.

Girl, it's an umbrella, not a Lamborghini.

I have ten bucks in my pocket - what to spend it on? French fries - ten dollars' worth of french fries, ultimate fantasy.

I lost dozens of pairs of expensive glasses because I'd put them down and then not be able to find them again.

Any guy hates Valentine's Day. Even if you're in love, you can't win on Valentine's Day. If you're married, you can't win on Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day is like the thing you want to avoid at all costs.

I thought I should have a Rolls, for prestige, so I ordered one. But when it came, I realized that I didn't really need it.

Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things.