A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter.
Paul Scofield

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

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

A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.
Frank Howard Clark

A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn't the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft.
L. Neil Smith

A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.
Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.
C. S. Forester

A rich man can afford to be generous to many.
Mercedes McCambridge

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
Will Durant

A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.
Howard Crosby

After adding trillions to the debt on big-government policies most Americans didn't ask for and which we couldn't afford, Democratic leaders say they need more money, which they intend to take from small business, even though small businesses create the majority of new jobs.
Mitch McConnell

After I got this job at the syndicate, I started sending them money so they could go on trips and do the things they could never afford to do. All the while, I never knew that my mother was socking money away.
Lynn Johnston

After that he turned to the question of invading England. Hitler said that during the previous year he could not afford to risk a possible failure; apart from that, he had not wished to provoke the British, as he hoped to arrange peace talks.
Kurt Student

Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.
Ed Markey

Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for such diversion later in life.
George Andrew Olah

America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it.
Bill Frist

And after I make a lot of money, I'll be able to afford running for office.
Christy Romano

And also they were absolutely brilliant in one way, you know: they knew how effective is not to punish somebody who is guilty; what Communist Party members could afford to do was mind-boggling: they could do practically anything they wanted - steal, you know, lie, whatever.
Milos Forman

And I thought if I don't pre-interview - first of all, we couldn't afford it - but the second thing was it would force me to do my own research, which takes two weeks.
James Lipton