Expenses Quotes - Page 3

For better or worse, there are few things so disarming as one who laughs well at her own expense.

In Bengal, Hindus are known to crack jokes at the expense of their gods and goddesses and that's what I did.

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

And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life.

To eat off another man's plate. [To live an another's expense.]

Nothing is sure in London, except expense.

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

To gain a livelihood at the expense of all that makes life worth the having.

Companies that only focus on expense reduction are all but dead as they will find themselves sooner or later unable to reduce anymore.

Avoid getting wrapped up in things - especially status purchases - as these often come at the expense of people and relationships.

Sarcasm is always at someone's expense.

Avarice fills its purse at the expense of its belly.

It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers.

I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.

He is happy in his wisdom who has learned at another's expense.

I am on an expense account that would blow your mind.

Ours is an age that's often obsessed with knowledge at the expense of wisdom.

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

Once we considered education a public expense; we know now that it is a public investment.

Doing too much for others (often at their own expense), many persons are more 'human doings' than human beings.

The Bible says we're to be moderate in all things. It's good to help others but not at the expense of your own family.

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

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

Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.

Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.