Logo
Quote by Edmund Burke
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. – Edmund Burke

Other quotes by Edmund Burke

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived. – Edmund Burke

Category:
People
Author
Edmund Burke
Read Quote

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. – Edmund Burke

Category:
Art
Author
Edmund Burke
Read Quote

People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors. – Edmund Burke

Category:
History
Author
Edmund Burke
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
great
category

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
great

For a competitive junkie like me, golf is a great solution because it smacks you in the face every time you think you have accomplished something. That to me has taken over a lot of the energy and competitiveness for basketball. – Michael Jordan

Category:
great

A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs. – Wentworth Miller

Category:
great

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them. – Hypatia

Category:
great

Random Quotes

Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And thats a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect. – Rob Reiner

Category:
Change

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all. – Rebecca West, “There is No Conversation,” 1934

Category:
Speaking

Theres all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, its a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society. – Irvine Welsh

Category:
sad

Im not a great science fiction fan myself. I probably feel that way about Westerns. Like I used to play Cowboys and Indians, they can act out Will and the Robot. – Mark Goddard

Category:
Science