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"I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes." »Kahlil Gibran
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"A credit union is not an ordinary financial concern, seeking to enrich its members at the expense of the general public. Neither is it a loan company, seeking to make a profit at the expense of the unfortunates… The credit union is nothing of the kind; it is the expression in the field of economics of a high social ideal." »Alphonse Desjardins, The Canadian credit union pioneer made the remarks in a speech in the early 1900s.
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"General Napoleon says that ability is of little account without opportunity. The opposite is also correct: Opportunity is of little account without ability." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence." »Benjamin Franklin
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"Spare no expense to make everything as economical as possible." »Samuel Goldwyn
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"Spare no expense to save money on this one." »Samuel Goldwyn
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"Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain." »Marquis de Sade
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"Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth." »Johann Georg von Zimmermann
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"The corporation has evolved to serve the interests of whoever controls it, at the expense of whoever does not." »William Dugger
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"Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable." »Lord Chesterfield
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"The pleasure is momentary, the position rediculous, and the expense damnable." »Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
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"Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else." »Frederick Bastiat, "Government" published in 1848
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"The state is the great ficticious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else." »Frederic Bastait, Letters to the Economist March 5, 2005
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"Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life." »Robert Byrne
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"Of children as of procreation - the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable." »Evelyn Waugh
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"In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment." »Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species 1859
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"Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account." »Benjamin Franklin
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"Ability is of little account without opportunity." »Napoleon Bonaparte
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"A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live." »Voltaire
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"account no man happy till he dies." »Euripides
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"I don't have a bank account, because I don't know my mother's maiden name." »Paula Poundstone
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"Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest." »Professor Irwin Corey
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"Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius." »Robert A. Heinlein
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"Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness." »M. Hirschfield
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"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job." »Douglas Adams
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"I put no account on him who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him." »Goethe
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"A person will be called to account on Judgement Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not." »The Talmud
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"Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account." »Oscar Wilde
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"When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account." »Haniel Long
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"The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete." »Confucius
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