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An acronym for grace is God's Riches At Christ's Expense. -- Renee Swope
When You Hold Onto Your History, You Do It At The Expense Of Your Destiny. -- T. D. Jakes
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. -- Edmund Burke
Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man. -- Napoleon Hill
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. -- Hannah More
Lightness, jesting, and joking, can only be indulged at the expense of barrenness of soul, and the loss of the favor of God. -- Ellen G. White
The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others? -- Henry David Thoreau
Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture. -- Albert J. Nock
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. -- Jane Austen
Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many. -- Bob Brown
Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life. -- Benjamin Disraeli
I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people. -- Russell Brand
They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers. -- Frederic Bastiat
Our nation was built by pioneers - pioneers who accepted untold risks in pursuit of freedom, not by pioneers seeking offshore profits at the expense of American workers here at home. -- Ted Strickland
That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend. -- Minna Antrim
Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism. -- Thomas Sowell
The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science. -- Sam Harris
Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals. -- Alveda King
Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest. -- C. S. Lewis
Riches and the things that are necessary in life are not evil in themselves. And all of us face cares and troubles in this life. The sin comes in the time and energy we spend in pursuing these things, at the expense of neglecting Christ. -- David Wilkerson
If you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology, and the growing fragmentation of the consumer market were all going to help smaller companies thrive at the expense of the slow-moving giants of the Fortune 500, apparently you were wrong. -- James Surowiecki
People didn't always see a person with a disability who had to use a ramp or elevator as people who have been given unnecessary privileges. But I run into that often now. People are saying, 'Why do we have to go to great expense for these people?' -- Major Owens
I have no patience for anyone who thinks they've figured things out, no patience for people who think they're right at the expense of everyone else. The world is too connected and too complicated to conform to any of our rigid ideas of what it should be like. -- Moby
Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else's expense. And I find that that's just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else's feelings. -- Ellen DeGeneres
I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don't think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths. -- Jimmy Carter
For all the tough talk about China during the presidential debates, Romney and Obama evaded any mention of China's suspect human rights record, corruption, and rule of law. By not tackling these controversial topics, the candidates are protecting a strategic partnership with China at the expense of essential human values and beliefs. -- Ai Weiwei
I think a lot of people get so obsessed with the wedding and the expense of the wedding that they miss out on what the real purpose is. It's not about a production number, it's about a meaningful moment between two people that's witnessed by people that they actually really know and care about. -- Jane Seymour
I carry my own film guys with me now. People think that's a huge expense, but with technology like it is these days, it's not. You can film videos and everything with a Canon Mark II, and shoot a movie. They're doing it for next to nothing, by comparison. I can do ten videos for a project for the price of one mainstream video in the past. -- Ronnie Dunn
Sarcasm is always at someone's expense. -- Veronica Roth
Forgiveness saves the expense of anger. -- Hannah More
Nothing is certain in London but expense. -- William Shenstone
Avoid witticisms at the expense of others. -- Horace Mann
Nothing is sure in London, except expense. -- William Shenstone
Spare no expense on the stuff that matters. -- Andrew Mayne
In law, nothing is certain but the expense. -- Samuel Butler
Protocol is etiquette with a government expense account. -- Judith Martin
Gain at the expense of reputation is manifest loss. -- Publilius Syrus
Selfishness at the expense of others happiness is demonism. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Taste is pursued at a less expense than fashion. -- William Shenstone
A man must become wise at his own expense. -- Michel de Montaigne
Spare no expense to save money on this one. -- Samuel Goldwyn
One may gain one truth at the expense of another. -- Anais Nin
Economy is an excellent lure to betray people into expense. -- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
Avarice fills its purse at the expense of its belly. -- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Have your boyfriend add therapy bills to my expense tab. -- Jeaniene Frost
He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense. -- Plautus
It's always tempting to do good at someone else's expense -- Frederic Bastiat
Spare no expense to make everything as economical as possible. -- Samuel Goldwyn
The sacred exists only at the expense of the truth. -- Mark Russell
To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence. -- Alexander Pope
To eat off another man's plate. [To live an another's expense.] -- Juvenal
Foreign aid must be viewed as an investment, not an expense. -- Kay Granger
Freedom isn't to do what you want at somebody else's expense. -- John Lydon
Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself. -- Benjamin Franklin
Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain. -- Marquis de Sade
I want people to like me but not at my expense. -- Aubrey Plaza
The cost of quality is the expense of doing things wrong. -- Phil Crosby
I am on an expense account that would blow your mind. -- Neal Stephenson
The expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting. -- Samuel Johnson
You cannot have security at the expense of the insecurity of others -- Mohammad Javad Zarif
Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable. -- Lord Chesterfield
A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much. -- Quintilian
Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable. -- Lord Chesterfield
The rapturuous, wild, and ineffable pleasure of drinking at somebody else's expense -- Leigh Hunt
For there to be an expense, there must be income somewhere else -- Robert Kiyosaki
There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people. -- Anwar Sadat
Honesty and wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense! -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
He is happy in his wisdom who has learned at another's expense. -- Plautus
Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him. -- Jean de La Fontaine
A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Too much profit is being made at the expense of unsuspecting patients. -- Melissa Cady
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue. -- Quintilian
My dad worked several jobs to pay for my expense in skating. -- Nancy Kerrigan
At great expense, we have built a vast system of inter-connecting stupidities. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
In the long run, stability cannot be purchased at the expense of liberty. -- George W. Bush
Irony gives us, at little expense, the impression that we are experienced psychologists. -- Gaston Bachelard
The habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense. -- Charles Dickens
Politicians will pander to special-interest groups eager to gain at the public expense. -- Donald J. Boudreaux
A feast not profuse but elegant; more of salt [refinement] than of expense. -- Lord Byron
Whatever you know in your heart, live at the expense of anything else. -- John de Ruiter
I must not serve a distant neighbour at the expense of the nearest. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Every person shall be free to do good ' at his own expense. -- Milton Friedman
Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person. -- Jonathan Swift
Power always protects the good of some at the expense of all others. -- Thomas Merton
To win a moral victory at the expense of your sanity is dumb. -- Stuart Wilde
Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism. -- Terry Eagleton
any experiment of interest in life will be carried out at your own expense -- John Wilmot
Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense. -- Alexander Pope
Will you be clever at the expense of others, or will you be kind? -- Jeff Bezos
Thou shalt have one God only: who Would be at the expense of two? -- Arthur Hugh Clough
Social media is the empowerment of the individual at the expense of the system. -- David Amerland
Moral cowardice at the expense of the vulnerable unborn is both wrong and pathetic. -- Russell D. Moore
All I learned from Eliel Saarinen was how to make out an expense account -- Frank Lloyd Wright
It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory. -- Alain-Rene Lesage
I am going to put money into education at the expense of other programs. -- Dalton McGuinty
To pursue union at the expense of truth is treason to the Lord Jesus. -- Charles Spurgeon
Ours is an age that's often obsessed with knowledge at the expense of wisdom. -- Mal Fletcher
Forgiveness spares the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. -- Hannah More
I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense. -- Randeep Hooda
Mary's mouth cost her nothing for she never opens it but at others' expense. -- Benjamin Franklin
May the IRS find that you deduct your pet sheep as an entertainment expense. -- Christopher Moore
But principles defended at the expense of pragmatic application is the business of priests. -- Kathleen Parker
To breed up the son to common sense is evermore the parent's least expense. -- John Dryden
Even in a time of fiscal austerity, education is more than just an expense. -- Arne Duncan
we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character. -- Ida Tarbell
Of children as of procreation -- the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable -- Evelyn Waugh
One insidious practice which sugar-coats the dose of Federal intrusion is the division of expense . . . -- Calvin Coolidge
I don't think value to the customer is achieved at the expense of employees' welfare. -- Brad Stone
You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you. -- R. K. Milholland
Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be. -- Gary Hamel
Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them. -- Jean de La Fontaine
To gain a livelihood at the expense of all that makes life worth the having. -- Juvenal
I don't mind if smiles come at my expense, I'm a small price to pay. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
Loving money at the expense of others is an abuse of power to get wealth. -- Myles Munroe
Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart. -- Scott Adams
The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense corrupts the purest souls. -- Francois Fenelon
The bonus for bankers fragilizes the system. Someone has the upside at the expense of others. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
That should be regarded as a loss, which is won at the expense of our reputation. -- Publilius Syrus

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