Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.
It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat; and worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them,--for every one, sees how we dress, but none see how we live, except we choose to let them. But the truly great are, by universal suffrage, exempted from these trammels, an may live or dress as they please.
Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers.
No educated man can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.
Les te moins sont fort chers, et n'en a pas qui veut. Witnesses are expensive and not everyone can afford them.
It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks.
You don't have any communication between the Israelis and the Iranians. You have all sorts of local triggers for conflict. Having countries act on a hair trigger - where they can't afford to be second to strike - the potential for a miscalculation or a nuclear war through inadvertence is simply too high.
Just like becoming an expert in wine, you learn by drinking it, the best you can afford.
Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
We are not so poor we must destroy our wilderness, nor so rich we can afford to.
But obviously, we can't afford to make some bad long-term decisions with regard to basic commitments our country has - trade those away for some short-term assistance that may or may not be there a month from now.
The biggest hurdle to writing Fargo Rock City was that I couldn't afford a home computer - I had to get a new job so I could buy a computer. It could all change though. In five years, I could be back at some daily newspaper, which wouldn't be so bad.
If you have more than 120 or 130 I. Q. points, you can afford to give the rest away. You don't need extraordinary intelligence to succeed as an investor.
I have no faith, very little hope, and as much charity as I can afford.
I intend to make America strong again. I'm going to be the champion of the middle class, where I came from. If you make me your president, our best days are ahead. I'm ready to be commander-in-chief, ladies and gentlemen, on day one. I intend to win a war that we cannot afford to lose.
So the real question confronting you now is: How can you afford not to be in God's Word?
So use prosperity, that adversity may not abuse thee: if in the one, security admits no fears, in the other, despair will afford no hopes; he that in prosperity can foretell a danger can in adversity foresee deliverance.
I can't afford to be a member of a golf course.
If we are to reclaim our culture, we cannot afford narrow definitions.