Afford Quotes

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Stupid, Blessings, Friends

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.
Winston Churchill

Game, Play, Learn

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.
Mother Teresa

Live, Angry, Why

It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
Thomas Sowell

Government, Amazing, Cannot

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau

Friendship, Knowledge, Ignorance

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
Henry David Thoreau

Alone, Rich, Number

I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.
Phyllis Diller

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.
William Feather

Keep, Budget, Buying

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
George Bernard Shaw

Politics, Car, Mind

Very few people can afford to be poor.
George Bernard Shaw

We can't afford to be killing one another.
Nelson Mandela

People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.
Robert Half

Government, Live, Try

Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.
John Henrik Clarke

Power, Powerful, Cannot

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
Edmund Burke

Nothing, Promise, Hypocrisy

What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they're not discriminated on the job.
Barack Obama

Marriage, Job, Woman

In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.
Barack Obama

Society, Cannot, Again

Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.
Bill Gates

Rich, Countries

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Samuel Johnson

Life, Tired, London

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
James A. Baldwin

Him, Cannot, Child

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Samuel Johnson

Life, Tired, Find

I support health care for people. I want people well taken care of. But I also want health care that we can afford as a country. I have people and friends closing down their businesses because of Obamacare.
Donald Trump

Health, Care, Down

Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
Orson Welles

Tough, Big, Nobody

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
James Madison

Education, Forward, Parents

Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
Calvin Coolidge

Today, Tomorrow, Economy

Only great minds can afford a simple style.
Stendhal

Great, Simple, Minds

If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.
Newt Gingrich

Fact, Ignorant, Empire

If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.
J. P. Morgan

I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.
Dave Barry

Good, Children, Parents

Few artists can afford artistic temperament.
Mason Cooley

Few, Artists, Artistic

When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays.
Henny Youngman

Doctor, Operation, Offered

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