“ 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
“ I consider violence an uneconomical way of attaining an end. There are always better substitutes, though they may sometimes be a little less direct. ”
- Isaac Asimov- Copy
“ The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly. ”
- Ben Johnson- Copy
“ Free livers on a small scale; who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea. ”
- Washington Irving- Copy
“ It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as make up the state of our treats; as it is a prodigal one to spend more in sauce than in meat. ”
- William Penn- Copy
“ It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser. ”
- Robert Louis Stevenson- Copy
“ Nothing is more precious than time, and those who misspend it are the greatest of all prodigals. ”
- Theophrastus- Copy
“ 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
“ If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
“ All things that are, Are with more spirit chased than enjoy'd. How like a younker or a prodigal The scarfed bark puts from her native bay, Hugg'd and embraced by the strumpet wind! How like the prodigal doth she return, With over-weather'd ribs and ragged sails, Lean, rent, and beggar'd by the strumpet wind! - The Merchant of Venice… ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
“ 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
“ The Sussex lanes were very lovely in the autumn... spendthrift gold and glory of the year-end... earth scents and the sky winds and all the magic of the countryside which is ordained for the healing of the soul. ”
- Monica Baldwin- Copy
“ A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its wasteful squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks before civilization. ”
- William Booth- Copy
“ So prodigal was I of youth, Forgetting I was young; I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong. ”
- Vita Sackville West- Copy
“ I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use our natural resources, but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or rob by wasteful use, the generations that come after us. ”
- Theodore Roosevelt- Copy
“ 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
“ No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. ”
- Samuel Smiles- Copy
“ You can't expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal's return. ”
- Hector Hugh Munro- Copy
“ For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen. ”
- Cervantes- Copy
“ None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
“ 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
“ It was built when public architecture mattered,... Now, it would be called wasteful spending. ”
- Henry Chadwick- Copy
“ She was a spendthrift of the spirit, an American in Paris when, as Evelyn Waugh said, the going was good. ”
- Anatole Broyard- Copy
“ 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
“ 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
“ Hate is a wasteful emotion. Most of the people you hate never know it. The others don't care. ”
- Medgar Evers- Copy
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