Think about the last time you wished you had a bit of money in your pocket to buy something when you were out and about. Maybe it was some emergency item like a razor or toothpaste, or maybe you just really wanted a snack but weren’t prepared enough to have cash on hand. You might have even been tempted to swipe your card for an impromptu purchase. If this sounds familiar, then you’ll appreciate these convenience quotes that explore our love-hate relationship with spending money on the fly.

1. It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. I’m a politician. Politics is just a convenience for our life and we just have to create a beautiful world together that would be very convenient for us and just enjoyable. — Yoko Ono
3. The world is full of terrible suffering, compared to which the small inconveniences of my childhood are as a drop of rain in the sea. — Richard Rhodes, A Hole in the World: An American Boyhood
4. Public offices were not made for private convenience. — Thomas Jefferson
5. It is not with respect to our convenience or discomfort, but with respect to their own nature that the creatures are glorifying to their Artificer. — Saint Augustine
6. Take painsto write a neat round, plain hand, and you will find it a great convenience through life to write a small and compact hand as well as a fair and legible one. — Thomas Jefferson
7. I tend to ‘splurge’ for convenience. I’ll pay a lot to not waste time. — Tom Anderson
8. He that travels in theory has no inconveniences. — Samuel Johnson
9. To deny a genocide because of convenience and expediency having to do with an illegal war or occupation in Iraq to me, is double hypocritical. — Serj Tankian
10. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. — Martin Luther King
11. It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
12. My life will end someday, but it will end at my convenience. — Michael Bassey Johnson
13. Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience. — Pam Brown
14. An occasional insurrection will not weigh against the inconveniences of a government of force, such as are monarchies and aristocracies. — Thomas Jefferson
15. I’m a politician. Politics is just a convenience for our life and we just have to create a beautiful world together that would be very convenient for us and just enjoyable. — Yoko Ono
16. To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives. — Oliver Goldsmith
17. That’s why I do this music business thing, it’s communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up. — Morrissey
18. An occasional insurrection will not weigh against the inconveniences of a government of force, such as are monarchies and aristocracies. — Thomas Jefferson
19. I tend to ‘splurge’ for convenience. I’ll pay a lot to not waste time. — Tom Anderson
20. Let us agree that we are marrying so we can go on quarreling in the greatest comfort and convenience. Oh, please, Althea, look at me. Do say yes. — Patrice Kindl, Keeping the Castle
21. Geek e–mail signoff: No trees were killed to send this message, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. — Neil Degrasse Tyson
22. Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture. — Tadao Ando
23. A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up his manuscripts to know. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
24. It’s more of a convenience thing. — Paul Ryan
25. I’m a politician. Politics is just a convenience for our life and we just have to create a beautiful world together that would be very convenient for us and just enjoyable. — Yoko Ono
26. Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye to our convenience at all. — Norbert Wiener
27. I come by my conservatism authentically, not by convenience. And I offer the American people a new direction. — Rick Perry
28. The reason for having diplomatic relations is not to confer a compliment, but to secure a convenience. [On diplomatic recognition of the People’s Republic of China] — Winston Churchill
29. Riches exclude only one inconvenience, ––that is, poverty. — Samuel Johnson
30. If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience. — Robert Fulghum
31. I tend to ‘splurge’ for convenience. I’ll pay a lot to not waste time. — Tom Anderson
32. Would any one believe that I am master of slaves by my own purchase? I am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living without them. — Patrick Henry
33. I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it. — Mark Twain
34. Don’t pick up the phone every time it rings. It is there for your convenience, not the convenience of others. — Robin S. Sharma
35. I am living proof that if you catch prostate cancer early, it can be reduced to a temporary inconvenience, and you can go back to a normal life. — Norman Schwarzkopf
36. Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience. — Pam Brown
37. It is not with respect to our convenience or discomfort, but with respect to their own nature that the creatures are glorifying to their Artificer. — Saint Augustine
38. Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play. — Virginia Woolf
39. Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss. — Samuel Johnson
40. The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety. — Samuel Johnson
41. I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it. — Mark Twain
42. A phone call should be a convenience to the caller, not an inconvenience to the called. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
43. In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience. — Mark Twain
44. I dont partake in assembly–line convenience. I dont say that killing things is bad while I hire people to kill things for me. — Ted Nugent
45. The greatness of man cannot be seen in the hours of comfort and convenience, but rather in moments of conflict/adversity — Martin Luther King
46. Security used to be an inconvenience sometimes, but now it’s a necessity all the time. — Martina Navratilova
47. The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety. — Samuel Johnson
48. Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss. — Samuel Johnson
49. Security used to be an inconvenience sometimes, but now it’s a necessity all the time. — Martina Navratilova
50. It is the right of a traveller to vent their frustration at every minor inconvenience by writing of it to their friends. — Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell