Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. Votes: 3
Edmund BurkeEarn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others. Votes: 2
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man. Votes: 2
Napoleon HillEconomy is an excellent lure to betray people into expense. Votes: 0
Johann Georg Ritter von ZimmermannThe expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting. Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonSex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable. Votes: 0
Philip StanhopeSex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable. Votes: 0
Lord ChesterfieldThe rapturuous, wild, and ineffable pleasure of drinking at somebody else's expense Votes: 0
Leigh HuntHonesty and wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense! Votes: 0
Nathaniel HawthorneAt great expense, we have built a vast system of inter-connecting stupidities. Votes: 0
Ashleigh BrilliantIrony gives us, at little expense, the impression that we are experienced psychologists. Votes: 0
Gaston BachelardThe habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense. Votes: 0
Charles DickensPoliticians will pander to special-interest groups eager to gain at the public expense. Votes: 0
Donald J. BoudreauxPostmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism. Votes: 0
Terry EagletonTis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense. Votes: 0
Alexander PopeSocial media is the empowerment of the individual at the expense of the system. Votes: 0
David AmerlandMoral cowardice at the expense of the vulnerable unborn is both wrong and pathetic. Votes: 0
Russell D. MooreAll I learned from Eliel Saarinen was how to make out an expense account Votes: 0
Frank Lloyd WrightForgiveness spares the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. Votes: 0
Hannah MoreMary's mouth cost her nothing for she never opens it but at others' expense. Votes: 0
Benjamin FranklinMay the IRS find that you deduct your pet sheep as an entertainment expense. Votes: 0
Christopher MooreBut principles defended at the expense of pragmatic application is the business of priests. Votes: 0
Kathleen Parkerwe were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character. Votes: 0
Ida TarbellI don't think value to the customer is achieved at the expense of employees' welfare. Votes: 0
Brad StoneYou can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you. Votes: 0
R. K. MilhollandBusinesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be. Votes: 0
Gary HamelBe advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them. Votes: 0
Jean de La FontaineRemind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart. Votes: 0
Scott AdamsThe passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense corrupts the purest souls. Votes: 0
Francois FenelonThe bonus for bankers fragilizes the system. Someone has the upside at the expense of others. Votes: 0
Nassim Nicholas TalebThat should be regarded as a loss, which is won at the expense of our reputation. Votes: 0
Publilius SyrusBe not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth. Votes: 0
Johann Georg Ritter von ZimmermannOnce we considered education a public expense; we know now that it is a public investment. Votes: 0
Lyndon B. JohnsonNo expense has been incurred but what has been approved of and provided for by Parliament. Votes: 0
Robert WalpoleBigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony. Votes: 0
Oliver HerfordI prioritise story over science, but not at the expense of being really stupid about it. Votes: 0
Alastair ReynoldsBe not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth. Votes: 0
Johann Georg ZimmermannReality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheDistinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside. Votes: 0
William Gilmore SimmsIf you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin. Votes: 0
Benmont TenchScience is a way to pursue one's sense of inquiry at the expense of the State. Votes: 0
Lev ArtsimovichIt is better to be passionate than to be tolerant at the expense of one's soul. Votes: 0
Freya StarkWhen we love animals and children too much, we love them at the expense of men. Votes: 0
Jean-Paul SartreIt is easy to be lenient at other people's expense, and call it generosity of mind. Votes: 0
Anthony DanielsTo be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation. Votes: 0
Madeleine AlbrightStand for something. Don't quest for popularity at the expense of morality and ethics and honesty. Votes: 0
Howard CosellCivilization does everything for the mind and favors it entirely at the expense of the body. Votes: 0
Napoleon BonaparteThere is no greater dishonesty than man effecting his own private gains at the expense of others. Votes: 0
Leonard ReadI compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the expense of everything else in my life. Votes: 0
Stan GetzWhat I have a problem with is money and name at the expense of talent and culture. Votes: 0
Bojana NovakovicI can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend's interest and inclination. Votes: 0
George WashingtonWe don't want to focus on the trees (or their leaves) at the expense of the forest. Votes: 0
Douglas HofstadterThe road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it. Votes: 0
Josh BillingsEven opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life. Votes: 0
Michel de MontaigneAmericans deserve both clean air and clean water and never one at the expense of the other. Votes: 0
Carol BrownerThe myth of black women profiting at the expense of black men is the oldest rap around. Votes: 0
Johnnetta B. ColeAnd there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life. Votes: 0
Madeleine L'EngleAnd the biggest, coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly. Votes: 0
Paul RyanGovernment is a way by which every individual believes he can live at the expense of everybody else. Votes: 0
Milton FriedmanSkeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting. Votes: 0
John OrtbergRaillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature. Votes: 0
Baron de MontesquieuA sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else. Votes: 0
Bette DavisThe state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else. Votes: 0
Frederic BastiatLearning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life. Votes: 0
Robert ByrneBring a lawsuit against a man who can pay; the poor man's acts are not worth the expense Votes: 0
OvidRarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many, Votes: 0
Dick Cheneywar grows out of desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man. Votes: 0
Napoleon HillIn all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others. Votes: 0
Jorge Luis BorgesThe state has typically been a device for producing affluence for a few at the expense of many. Votes: 0
Murray RothbardIn fact, this is a blackmail of the terrorists at the expense of the suffering of the hostages. Votes: 0
Alberto FujimoriIt is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority. Votes: 0
Alexander HamiltonWe believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment. Votes: 0
Lyndon B. JohnsonFor better or worse, there are few things so disarming as one who laughs well at her own expense. Votes: 0
Amor TowlesIf you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something. Votes: 0
Alan KingAnyone may fairly seek his own advantage, but no one has a right to do so at another's expense. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroI'd like to have mass appeal, but not at the expense of what I am and what I do best. Votes: 0
Stephanie MillsI am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes. Votes: 0
Edward GibbonI was pursuing the inner path at the expense of the rest of my being and the rest of the world. Votes: 0
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