1 It’s always an enormous pressure when you do a sequel. The demands are so high, and it’s expensive. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Jan de Bont, Expense, Pressure, 0 Jan de Bont Director · Netherlands Copy
2 Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Gilbert Parker, Expense, Justice, Productivity, 0 Gilbert Parker Copy
3 Being cultured is the least expensive form of respectability. Read explanation Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Mason Cooley, Culture, Expense, Respectability, 0 Mason Cooley Professor · USA Copy
4 Once we considered education a public expense; we know now that it is a public investment. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Lyndon B. Johnson, Education, Expense, Investment, 0 Lyndon B. Johnson Politician · USA Copy
5 Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Lord Chesterfield, Expense, Pleasure, Ridiculousness, 0 Lord Chesterfield Politician · England Copy
6 The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Josh Billings, Expense, Repair, 0 Josh Billings Humorist · USA Copy
7 Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart. Author, January 10, 2024January 6, 2025, Scott Adams, Expense, Profit, Revenue, 0 Scott Adams Cartoonist · USA Copy
8 At great expense, we have built a vast system of inter-connecting stupidities. Author, January 9, 2024January 6, 2025, Ashleigh Brilliant, Expense, System, 0 Ashleigh Brilliant Author · England Copy
9 Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense. Read explanation Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Alexander Pope, Expense, Sense, Use, 0 Alexander Pope Poet · England Copy
10 To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence. Read explanation Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Alexander Pope, Balance, Economy, Expense, 0 Alexander Pope Poet · England Copy
11 Avoid shame, but do not seek glory; nothing so expensive as glory. Author, January 4, 2024January 6, 2025, Sydney Smith, Expense, Glory, Shame, 0 Sydney Smith Clergyman · England Copy
12 Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Oliver Herford, Avoidance, Deception, Expense, 0 Oliver Herford Poet · England Copy
13 In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage. Author, December 22, 2023December 28, 2024, Thomas de Quincey, Burden, Conscience, Expense, 0 Thomas de Quincey Essayist · England Copy
14 Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses. Author, December 22, 2023December 29, 2024, Theophrastus, Expense, Time, Waste, 0 Theophrastus Philosopher · Greece Copy
15 No expense has been incurred but what has been approved of and provided for by Parliament. Author, December 22, 2023December 28, 2024, Robert Walpole, Approval, Expense, 0 Robert Walpole Politician · England Copy
16 For there to be an expense, there must be income somewhere else Author, December 22, 2023December 28, 2024, Robert Kiyosaki, Expense, Income, Relationship, 0 Robert Kiyosaki Entrepreneur and author Copy
17 What is necessary is possible, what we want is expensive. What is unnecessary is unlikely. Author, December 22, 2023December 28, 2024, Robert Fripp, Expense, Necessity, Possibility, 0 Robert Fripp Musician · England Copy
18 If you think that hiring professionals is expensive, try hiring amateurs Author, December 14, 2023December 28, 2024, Red Adair, Expense, Professionalism, Quality, 0 Red Adair Firefighter · USA Copy
19 Redundancy is expensive but indispensable. Author, October 5, 2023January 2, 2025, Jane Jacobs, Efficiency, Expense, Necessity, 0 Jane Jacobs Urban planner Copy
20 Risk is just an expensive substitute for information. Author, August 21, 2023January 2, 2025, Adrian Slywotzky, Expense, Information, Risk, 0 Adrian Slywotzky Author Copy
21 It’s not a real adventure when you have to pay for it. Author, June 16, 2023January 2, 2025, Edmund Hillary, Authenticity, Enjoyment, Expense, 0 Edmund Hillary Mountaineer · New Zealand Copy
22 Protocol is etiquette with a government expense account. Author, June 10, 2023January 2, 2025, Judith Martin, Etiquette, Expense, Government, 0 Judith Martin Author · USA Copy
23 All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. Read explanation Author, December 24, 2022December 25, 2024, Benjamin Franklin, Expense, Folly, 0 Benjamin Franklin Founding Father of the United States · USA Copy
Speaking for myself, my first priority is to take care of my family. That’s first and foremost. Yo Gotti Rapper · USA
Ignorance is bliss, Knowledge is pain. To know is to grow, To grow is inconvenient. Abhijit Naskar Neuroscientist · India
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. James Anthony Froude
