“The best wedding is that upon which the least trouble and expense is bestowed.”
Thomas Hughes (priest) (1838–1911) British missionary
sayings of Muhammad on the subject of marriage, quoted from T.P. Hughes: Dictionary of Islam.
Dictionary of Islam
“Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense advocating them with words.”
"The Thud of Ideas," The New Yorker (23 September 1950)
Context: Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense advocating them with words. Temperamentally we are ready to die for certain principles (or, in the case of overripe adults, send youngsters to die), but we show little inclination to advertise the reasons for dying.
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Henry Knox (1750–1806) Continental Army and US Army general, US Secretary of War
Knox to a local officer while taking cannon to Boston. Reported in David McCullough, 1776 (2005), p. 83.
“This is going to be a very expensive war, and Victory is not guaranteed — for anyone”
Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author
"When War Drums Roll" (17 September 2001)
2000s
Context: This is going to be a very expensive war, and Victory is not guaranteed — for anyone, and certainly not for anyone as baffled as George W. Bush. All he knows is that his father started the war a long time ago, and that he, the goofy child-President, has been chosen by Fate and the global Oil industry to finish it. Now.
Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi (1960) Iranian politician
As quoted in Anti-Israel remarks 'misunderstood,' says Iranian official, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 16 December 2005 http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2005/12/16/iran_holocaust051216.html,
“The trouble with me is that I’m an outsider. And that’s a very hard thing to be in American life.”
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929–1994) public figure, First Lady to 35th U.S. President John F. Kennedy
Quoted in The Unknown Wisdom of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1994) edited by Bill Adler
“Our distrust is very expensive.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Angelique Rockas South African actress and founder of Internationalist Theatre, London
On the beauty of fabrics
Interview on Helenism .net (September 2011)