Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

-Baldwin,James Arthur
Nobody Knows My Name,'Fifth  Avenue, Uptown'.

Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.

-Leacock, Stephen Butler
  Literary Lapses,'A Manual of Education'.

Les te¤  moins sont fort chers, et n'en a pas qui veut. Witnesses are expensive and not everyone can afford them.

-Racine,Jean
  Les Plaideurs, act 3, sc.3.