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Expenses

83 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

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Jean de La Fontaine Poet, Fabulist

"Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him."

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Voltaire Philosopher, Writer

"A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live."

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Jean de La Fontaine Poet, Fabulist

"Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them."

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Robert Kiyosaki Businessman, Author

"It's through our expenses that we become richer or poorer, regardless of how much money we make."

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Alan King Comedian, Actor

"If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

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"Our expenses are all for conformity."

Individuality Conformity Expenses

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Cato the Elder Politician, Orator

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"Even though work stops, expenses run on."

Running Expenses

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Robert Kiyosaki Businessman, Author

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"For there to be an expense, there must be income somewhere else"

Income Somewhere Else Expenses

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Nathaniel Hawthorne Novelist

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"Honesty and wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense!"

Honesty Expenses Pastime

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Adam Smith Philosopher, Economist

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"It must always be remembered, however, that it is the luxuries, and not the necessary expense of the inferior ranks of people, that ought ever to be taxed."

People Luxury Expenses

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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author

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"Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself."

Goodness Expenses Moral Perfection

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb Author, Statistician

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"The bonus for bankers fragilizes the system. Someone has the upside at the expense of others."

Bankers Expenses Bonus

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James Cash Penney Businessman

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"The public is not greatly interested in saving a little money on a purchase at the expense of service."

Littles Saving Expenses

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Mark Russell Political Satirist

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"The sacred exists only at the expense of the truth."

Sacred Expenses

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Marcus Tullius Cicero Politician, Philosopher, Orator

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"Anyone may fairly seek his own advantage, but no one has a right to do so at another's expense."

May Advantage Expenses

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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author

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"The expenses required to prevent a war are much lighter than those that will, if not prevented, be absolutely necessary to maintain it."

War Expenses Lighters

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Veronica Roth Author

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"Sarcasm is always at someone's expense."

Sarcasm Expenses

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Thomas Merton Writer, Monk

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"Power always protects the good of some at the expense of all others."

Protect Expenses

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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader

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"I must not serve a distant neighbour at the expense of the nearest."

Expenses Neighbour

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Kathleen Parker Journalist

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"But principles defended at the expense of pragmatic application is the business of priests."

Principles Priests Expenses

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Frank Lloyd Wright Architect

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"All I learned from Eliel Saarinen was how to make out an expense account"

Accounts Expenses Make Out

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Horace Mann Educator

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"Avoid witticisms at the expense of others."

Tongue Expenses

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Lord Byron Poet, Novelist

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"A feast not profuse but elegant; more of salt [refinement] than of expense."

Salt Expenses Refinement

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