Quotes of Spendthrift - somelinesforyou

“ Love is a spendthrift, leaves its arithmetic at home, is always in the red. ”

- Paul Scherer

“ The spendthrift robs his heirs; the miser robs himself. ”

- Jean de la Bruyere

“ She was a spendthrift of the spirit, an American in Paris when, as Evelyn Waugh said, the going was good. ”

- Anatole Broyard

“ All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things, that the indolent man and the laborious man, the spendthrift and the economist, the imprudent and the wise, should obtain and enjoy an equal amount of goods. ”

- Victor Cousin
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