Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^50  Mr Micawber. David Copperfield, ch.12.

Everybody is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.

-Eden, Sir (Robert) Anthony, 1st Earl of Avon
  In the Observer,17  Jun.

And as for you, archers, soldiers, gentlemen, and all otherswhoare besieging Orleans,depart in God'sname to your own country† I assure you that wherever I find your people in France I shall fight them, and pursue them, and expel them from here, whether they will or not.

-StJoan of Arc
  Letter to the English at Poitiers, 22 Mar. Quoted in Les Proce'  s de Jeanne d'Arc (translated by C Larrington), p.33.

Expenditure rises to meet income.

-Parkinson, C(yril) Northcote
  The Law and the Profits, ch.1.

   I have got the North Pole out of my system after twenty- three years of effort, hard work, disappointments, hardships, privations, more or less suffering, and some risks† The work is the finish, the cap and climax of nearly four hundred years of effort, loss of life, and expenditure of fortunes by the civilized nations of the world, and it has been accomplished in a way that is thoroughly American. I am content.

-Peary, Robert Edwin
  Diary entry, Apr. Quoted inTheNorth Pole (published1910).

Consider: only one bullet in ten thousand kills a man. Ask: was so much expenditure justified On the death of one so young and so silly Stretched under the olive trees,Oh, world,Oh, death?

-Spender, Sir Stephen Harold
  'Regum Ultimo Ratio'.