Gratitude is expensive. [ Gibbon ]

Nothing is so expensive as glory. [ Sydney Smith ]

An host's invitation is expensive. [ Proverb ]

Fate is a distinguished but an expensive tutor. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Fate is a distinguished but expensive pedagogue. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Ennui, the parent of expensive and ruinous vices. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]

Avoid shame, but do not seek glory: nothing so expensive as glory. [ Sydney Smith ]

Spite and ill-nature are among the most expensive luxuries in life. [ Dr. Johnson ]

The company in which you will improve most will be least expensive to you. [ George Washington ]

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]

Pride's chickens have bonny feathers, but they are an expensive brood to rear. They eat up everything, and are always lean when brought to market. [ Alexander Smith ]

Let your sleep be necessary and healthful, not idle and expensive of time, beyond the needs and conveniences of nature; and sometimes be curious to see the preparation which the sun makes when he is coming forth from his chambers of the east. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

There was a proposition in a township there to discontinue public schools because they were too expensive. An old farmer spoke up and said if they stopped the schools they would not save anything, because every time a school was closed a jail had to be built. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. He'll never get fat. I believe it is better to support schools than jails. [ Mark Twain, "Public Education Association" Speech ]

Today it is all of sixty years since I began to smoke the limit. I have never bought cigars with life-belts around them. I early found that those were too expensive for me: I have always bought cheap cigars - reasonably cheap, at any rate. Sixty years ago they cost me four dollars a barrel, but my taste has improved, latterly, and I pay seven, now. Six or seven. Seven, I think. Yes; it's seven. But that includes the barrel. I often have smoking-parties at my house; but the people that come have always just taken the pledge. I wonder why that is? [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]