Expenditure
It has often been found that profuse expenditures, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, corrupt tribunals, disastrous wars, seditions, persecutions, conflagrations, inundation, have not been able to destroy capital so fast as the exertions of private citizens have been able to create it.
Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayTopics: Commercials, Expenditure, Famous, Feelings, Found, Life, Private, Sedition, Taxation
Our costliest expenditure is time
Author: TheophrastusTopics: Costliest, Expenditure, Famous, Life, Meaningful, Time
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions–as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Topics: Attainment, Attempt, Expenditure, Experiencing, Failure, Question, Questioning
The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
Author: Franklin D. RooseveltTopics: Acceptance, Expenditure, Expensive, Experiences, Famous, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, School, School days, Socioeconomic
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Author: Confucius
Topics: Easy, Easy to grasp, Expenditure, Experience, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Noble, Noble task, Reflection, Wisdom
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
Author: Charles Dickens
Topics: Count, Counting, Expenditure, First annual, Happiness, Happy, Number, Similar results, Similarity, Simple
The defence budget is one of the very few elements of public expenditure that can truly be described as essential. This point was well-made by a robust Labour Defence Minister, Denis (Now Lord) Healey, many years ago: ‘Once we have cut expenditure to the extent where our security is imperiled, we have no houses, we have no hospitals, we have no schools. We have a heap of cinders.’
Author: Margaret ThatcherTopics: Budget, Cinders, Elements, Essential, Expenditure, Famous, Hospital, House, Meaningful, Ministers, Schools, Security
I want to remind you all that in order to fight and win the war, it requires an expenditure of money that is commiserate with keeping a promise to our troops to make sure that they’re well paid, well trained, well equipped.
Author: George W. BushTopics: Expenditure, Famous, Fighting, Money, War, Winning