Cost Of Living Quotes

• The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.

  Flip Wilson

  Funny, Life, Flip

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• The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn't seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions. He even prides himself on his political ignorance, sticks out his chest and says he hates politics. He doesn't know, the imbecile, that from his political non-participation comes the prostitute, the abandoned child, the robber and, worst of all, corrupt officials, the lackeys of exploitative multinational corporations.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Children, Hate, Ignorance

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• We've confused the cost of lifestyle with the cost of living. We've lost our perspective.

  Tim Costello

  Confused, Perspective, Lifestyle

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• No man can be a good citizen unless he has a wage more than sufficient to cover the bare cost of living, and hours of labor short enough so after his day's work is done he will have time and energy to bear his share in the management of the community, to help in carrying the general load.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Community, Energy

  Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge (2017). “The Complete Works of Theodore Roosevelt”, p.3157, Madison & Adams Press

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• The cost of living keeps going up, although death is surprisingly affordable.

  Stephen Colbert

  Cost, Affordable, Keep Going

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• In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.

  Kathleen Norris

  Funny, Life, Witty

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• The cost of living hasn't effected its popularity.

  Mark Twain

  Cost, Popularity

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• A credit card sometimes adds to the high cost of living but more often to the cost of high living.

  Bob Phillips

  Add, Cards, Credit

  Bob Phillips (2015). “Phillips' Treasury of Humorous Quotations”, p.61, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Focus on all four of your net worth factors: increasing your income, increasing your savings, increasing your investment returns, and decreasing your cost of living by simplifying your lifestyle.

  T. Harv Eker

  Motivational, Money, Focus

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Mar 29, 2015

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• What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of living high.

  Doug Larson

  Mistake, People, Cost

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• the high cost of living isnt so bad if you dont have to pay for it

  Don Marquis

  Pay, Economics, Hmmm

  Don Marquis (2013). “The Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel”, p.58, Doubleday

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• we are slaves to the cost of living.

  Carolina Maria de Jesus

  Cost, Poverty, Slave

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• Forgetting is the cost of living cheerfully.

  Zoe Akins

  Forgiveness, Cost, Forget

  Zoë Akins (1937). “The Hills Grow Smaller: Poems”

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• Inflation is not a Robin Hood, taking from the rich to give to the poor. Rather, it deals most cruelly with those who can least protect themselves. It strikes hardest those millions of our citizens whose incomes do not quickly rise with the cost of living. When prices soar, the pensioner and the widow see their security undermined, the man of thrift sees his savings melt away; the white collar worker, the minister, and the teacher see their standards of living dragged down.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Teacher, Men, White

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• The ever-rising cost of living: Someday soon, the corporate technicians will be locking meters on our noses and charging us a royalty on the air we breathe.

  Edward Abbey

  Air, Rising, Noses

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.51, RosettaBooks

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• How is the human race going to survive now that the cost of living has gone up two dollars a quart?

  W. C. Fields

  Race, Two, Humanity

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• First of all, the Social Security money belongs to Main Street, not to Wall Street. It needs to be said very clearly here that privatization is off the table... Social Security, as a matter of fact, is a better investment now than the stock market. There's a higher return. There's guaranteed cost-of-living increases. Privatization you have to worry about the value of your account.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Money, Wall, Worry

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• The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart.

  W. C. Fields

  Drinking, Alcohol, Dollars

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• An energy tax punishes senior citizens, it punishes rural Americans, if you use electricity it punishes you. This bill will increase your cost of living and may kill your job.

  Newt Gingrich

  Senior, Jobs, Energy

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• Social Security is a solemn promise to kupuna like my 88-year-old mother that they can rely on the retirement they've earned. While I'm glad to see our seniors receive an increase for the second year in a row, I wish the cost-of-living adjustment could be larger. However, every little bit helps make a difference in these tough economic times.

  Mazie Hirono

  Senior, Mother, Retirement

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• Well, first of all the Dominion Bureau of Statistics made a survey in the spring of 1970, which showed that on balance the difference in the cost of living between Canadian cities and American cities was 5 % to the advantage, of course, to the Canadian cities.

  Leonard Woodcock

  Spring, Cities, Differences

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• A general and a bit of shooting makes you forget your troubles ... it takes your mind off the cost of living.

  Brendan Behan

  War, Mind, Shooting

  Victor Edward Mitchell, Brendan Behan (1964). “A production book of Brendan Behan's The hostage”

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• We're telling small-business owners that not only are we going to raise their costs by a buck and a quarter, but we're also going to raise it with these cost-of-living adjustments. Here's what's going to happen: They're going to have to lay people off.

  Chris Christie

  People, Political, Bucks

  "Christie Says He’ll Reject Bill to Lift N.J. Minimum Wage" by Terrence Dopp, www.bloomberg.com. June 8, 2012.

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• The most sinister of all taxes is the inflation tax and it is the most regressive. It hits the poor and the middle class. When you destroy a currency by creating money out of thin air to pay the bills, the value of the dollar goes down, and people get hit with a higher cost of living. It's the middle class that's being wiped out. It is most evil of all taxes.

  Ron Paul

  Air, Class, Creating

  Ron Paul at GOP primary debate at the Maytag Auditorium in Johnston, Iowa, www.nytimes.com. December 12, 2007.

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• We must dress according to the dictates of fashion, make love whether we feel like it or not, kill in the name of our country, wish time away so that retirement comes more quickly, elect politicians, complain about the cost of living, change our hairstyle, criticize anyone who's different, go to a religious service and beg forgiveness for our sins and puff ourselves up with pride because we know the truth and despise the other tribe who worships a false god.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Country, Religious

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