Related Public Expenditure

Famous quotes containing the words related, public and/or expenditure:

    “Gambling is closely related to theft, and lewdness to murder.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “I’ll sing you a new ballad, and I’ll warrant it first-rate,
    Of the days of that old gentleman who had that old estate;
    When they spent the public money at a bountiful old rate
    On ev’ry mistress, pimp, and scamp, at ev’ry noble gate,
    In the fine old English Tory times;”
    —Charles Dickens (1812–1890)

    “To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)