#expensive

A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#cannot #costly #depends #enterprising #expensive

Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#earned #expensive #fortune #luck #smile

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#follies #mischievous #ones #very #wars

What is necessary is possible, what we want is expensive. What is unnecessary is unlikely. ↗

— Robert Fripp

#necessary #possible #unlikely #unnecessary #want

I published, privately, a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies, which I gave to friends, in a special deluxe edition. It was ridiculously expensive but I'm glad that I did it. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#copies #deluxe #did #edition #expensive

Just because there is a problem doesn't mean that we have to solve it, if the cure is going to be more expensive than the original ailment. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#because #cure #expensive #going #just

Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#alive #everyone #expensive #i #lawyers

Just don't go to a place where everything is too expensive... it'll put your husband in a bad mood. ↗

— Diane von Furstenberg

#bad mood #everything #expensive #go #husband

If you only had 48 hours left to live, would you spend it like you normally spend your weekends? If not, why spend 2/7th of your life wasting your free time? After all, free time isn’t free. Free time is the most expensive time you have, because nobody pays for it but you. But that also makes it the most valuable time you have, as you alone stand to reap the profits from spending it wisely. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#free #musing #philosophical #philosophy #time

Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me. ↗

— Tim Burton

#expensive #form #like #me #therapy