“A newspaper reported I spend $30,000 a year buying Paris clothes and that women hate me for it. I couldn’t spend that much unless I wore sable underwear.”
The New York Times (15 September 1960)
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“To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week’s newspapers.”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb book The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 21
“I get guilty when I spend money on silly things like clothes and stuff”
Katie Melua (1984) British singer-songwriter
Context: I get guilty when I spend money on silly things like clothes and stuff... Having experienced a completely different extreme of wealth, and I don't mean me being poor or rich, I mean knowing that 40 quid that gets spent on a pair of shoes could go a long way for a family in Georgia for a week or even a month, having experienced that, you're a bit more [guilty].
Joe Trohman (1984) American musician
On the tour with Arma Angelus’ Pete Wentz and Andy Hurley when he was only sixteen
TV.com
Source: http://www.tv.com/joe-trohman/person/412087/summary.html Joe Trohman on TV.com
“Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.”
Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Francisco De Goya (1746–1828) Spanish painter and printmaker (1746–1828)
letter to Javier (his only son), from Madrid, Summer of 1827; as quoted by Robert Hughes, in: Goya. Borzoi Book - Alfred Knopf, New York, 2003, p. 401 – note 15
1820s
Claude Monet (1840–1926) French impressionist painter
in a letter to Frédéric Bazille; as quoted in: K.E. Sullivan. Monet: Discovering Art, Brockhampton press, London (2004), p. 31.
1850 - 1870
“I wonder how much of the day I spend just callin' after you.”
Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
Helen Suzman (1917–2009) South African politician
As quoted in "Democracy? It was better under apartheid, says Helen Suzman" https://web.archive.org/web/20120901223952/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1462042/Democracy-It-was-better-under-apartheid-says-Helen-Suzman.html (15 May 2004), by Jane Flanagan, The Telegraph <br class="br">2000s