The Landlord is a gentleman who does not earn his wealth. He has a host of agents and clerks that receive for him. He does not even take the trouble to spend his wealth. He has a host of people around him to do the actual spending. He never sees it until he comes to enjoy it. His sole function, his chief pride, is the stately consumption of wealth produced by others.
We might make a lot of money but, we also spend a lot of money.
If feminism wasn't powerful, if feminism wasn't influential, people wouldn't spend so much time putting it down.
Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
If I have any advantage, maybe, as a writer, it is that I don't think I'm very interesting. I mean, beginning a novel with the last sentence is a pretty plodding way to spend your life.
If you wish to begin life at forty, you must settle two large personal questions first of all. You must find work and play that call for no more energy than you can afford to spend on them. Then you must train your mind, eye and hand to the point of working and playing with ease, grace and precision.
I live by 'Earnin' and burnin'. ' Meaning, I like to make money and spend it before I even have it. That's the way I live my life.
If you want to write about people, you can make it up. But if you spend time talking to someone and examining what it is you want to write about, you discover a level of detail that you wouldn't have noticed otherwise.
I went from having three little jobs that I strung together to being on the road full-time; having some savings that my managers told me to spend. You fly all over the country opening for these other people. You pay a publicist to get some press while you're establishing yourself and you will be solvent in this career forevermore.
I wondered if i would spend the rest of my life inventing complicated ways to depress myself.
She wondered if she was doomed to be one of those people who spend their lives trying things.
You can spend so much time wanting someone and they can have absolutely no idea.
Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.
Want a reliable road to emotional and spiritual suicide? Spend your life trying to fit in.
If the Conservative is less anxious than his Liberal brethren to increase Social Security ‘benefits,’ it is because he is more anxious than his Liberal brethren that people be free throughout their lives to spend their earnings when and as they see fit
Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy – if not less of it – doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.
Take good care of the things you have. Careless people spend more for a given standard of living.
Study continuously, developing yourself into a better person, more sensitive to things in nature. Spend years in getting ready.
Love isn't about when you first meet. It's about the many, many years you spend together, when you're trying to keep that flame burning.
I believe that anyone who flies in an airplane and doesn't spend most of his time looking out the window wastes his money.