Mothers of large families (who claim to common sense) Will find aTiger will repay the trouble and expense.

-Belloc, (Joseph) Hilaire Pierre
  The Bad Child's Book of Beasts,'The Tiger'.

The pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

-Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of
Of sex.  Attributed.

Thou shalt have one God only: who Would be at the expense of two?

-Clough, Arthur Hugh
  The Latest Decalogue.

Glorious deeds are not embraced by democracies, least of all by merchants, who, being by their nature intent on profit, loathe those splendid things that cannot be achieved without expense.

-Pius II real name Enea Silvio de Piccolomini
  Commentaries. Quoted inJ H Plumb (ed) The Horizon Book of the Renaissance (1961, new edn by Penguin,1982).

'Tis use alone that sanctifies expense, And splendour borrows all her rays from sense.

-Pope, Alexander
Epistles to Several Persons,'To Lord Burlington', l.179^80.

We can applaud the state lottery as a public subsidy of intelligence, for it yields public income that is calculated to lighten the tax burden of us prudent abstainers at the expense of the benighted masses of wishful thinkers.

-Quine,Willard Van Orman
  Quiddities,'Gambling'.

There needs no small degree of address to gain the reputation of benevolence without incurring the expense.

-Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
  Joseph Surface.The School for Scandal, act 5, sc.1.