Famous quotes containing the word afford:
“I can’t afford to pay them any other way.”
—Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919)
“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master’s ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)