“ It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser. ”
- Robert Louis Stevenson- Copy
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“ The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and "mangled mind" leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict. ”
- Elizabeth Drew- Copy
- 288
“ It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom. ”
- Bryant H. McGill- Copy
- 458
“ From splendour he fell through arrogance to contempt for all things save himself, a spirit wasteful and pitiless. ”
- J. R. R. Tolkien- Copy
- 87
“ Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine. ”
- George Bancroft- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Boys are the cash of war. Whoever said: we're not free spenders - doesn't know our like. ”
- John Ciardi- Copy
- 2.5K
“ What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature! ”
- Charles Darwin- Copy
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“ Elections should be held on April 16th - the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders. ”
- Thomas Sowell- Copy
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“ It was built when public architecture mattered,... Now, it would be called wasteful spending. ”
- Henry Chadwick- Copy
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“ She was a spendthrift of the spirit, an American in Paris when, as Evelyn Waugh said, the going was good. ”
- Anatole Broyard- Copy
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“ George W. Bush is a simple-minded but honest man who put too much faith in duplicitous advisors. ”
- Richard Cohen- Copy
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“ George W. Bush is a big spender. He has never vetoed a spending Bill. When Congress serves up a big slab of fat, crackling pork, Mr Bush responds with one big question: Got any barbecue sauce? ”
- Peggy Noonan- Copy
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“ Instruction does not prevent waster of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all. ”
- James Froude- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer. ”
- Norman Mailer- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little. ”
- Hannah More- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ Every day is a little life… live every day as if it would be the last. Those that dare lose a day are dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it are desperate. ”
- Joseph Hall- Copy
- 419
“ Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope. ”
- John Ciardi- Copy
- 3.5K
“ If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home. ”
- Vance Havner- Copy
- 3.3K
“ The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly. ”
- Ben Johnson- Copy
- 3.7K
“ If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
- 925
“ The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. ”
- William Cowper- Copy
- 234
“ Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. ”
- Karl Kraus- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly. ”
- Mario Puzo- Copy
- 774
“ Never ask of money spent Where the spender thinks it went. Nobody was ever meant To remember or invent What he did with every cent. ”
- Robert Frost- Copy
- 1.8K
“ What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is. ”
- Dan Quayle- Copy
- 3.5K
“ A sumptuous dwelling the rich man hath. And dainty is his repast; but remember that luxury's prodigal hand keeps the furnace of toil in blast. ”
- Mary Elizabeth Hewitt- Copy
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