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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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"A person who can acquire no property, can have no other interest but to eat as much, and to labour as little as possible. Whatever work he does beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own." »Adam Smith
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"All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life." »Thomas Mann
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"Every man ought to be supposed a knave, and to have no other end, in all his actions, but private interest. By this interest we must govern him, and by means of it, make him cooperate to public good, notwithstanding his unsatiable avarice and ambition." »Alexander Hamilton, P. 217 - A History of the American People by P. Johnson
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"No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back." »John Holt
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"Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special." »Fran Lebowitz
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"Spare no expense to save money on this one." »Samuel Goldwyn
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"Spare no expense to make everything as economical as possible." »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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"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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"Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable." »Lord Chesterfield
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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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"The pleasure is momentary, the position rediculous, and the expense damnable." »Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
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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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"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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"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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"It's as if we think liberation a fixed quantity, that there is only so much to go around. That an individual or community is liberated at the expense of another When we view liberation as a scarce resource, something only a precious few of us can have, we stifle our potential, our creativity, our genius for living, learning and growing." »Andrea Canaan
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"My life is music. And in some vague, mysterious, and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often--in fact, mostly--at the expense of everything else in my life." »Stan Getz
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"We talk on principle, but we act on interest." »Walter Savage Landor
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"I am a man, and whatever concerns humanity is of interest to me." »Terence
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"An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." »Benjamin Franklin
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"There are two levers for moving men interest and fear." »Napoleon Bonaparte
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"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." »Benjamin Franklin
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"If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect." »Benjamin Franklin
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"Anxiety is interest paid on trouble before it is due." »Dean Inge
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