“ Nothing is more precious than time, and those who misspend it are the greatest of all prodigals. ”
- Theophrastus- Copy
- 3.1K
“ 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
- 3.5K
“ It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser. ”
- Robert Louis Stevenson- Copy
- 3.6K
“ 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
- 3.1K
“ Free livers on a small scale; who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea. ”
- Washington Irving- Copy
- 1.7K
“ The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly. ”
- Ben Johnson- Copy
- 3.4K
“ 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
- 725
“ No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. ”
- Samuel Smiles- Copy
- 1.2K
“ 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
- 122
“ No price is set on lavish summer;June may be had by the poorest comer. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness. ”
- William Wordsworth- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
- 3.6K
“ You can't expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal's return. ”
- Hector Hugh Munro- Copy
- 2K
“ All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth but error still. Truth lies between these extremes. ”
- Richard Cecil- Copy
- 3.3K
“ 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
- 3.6K
“ 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
- 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
- 2.2K
“ 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
- 3.7K
“ It was built when public architecture mattered,... Now, it would be called wasteful spending. ”
- Henry Chadwick- Copy
- 3.5K
“ She was a spendthrift of the spirit, an American in Paris when, as Evelyn Waugh said, the going was good. ”
- Anatole Broyard- Copy
- 331
“ Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker. ”
- Charles Colton- Copy
- 2.4K
“ 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
- 1.1K
“ I was simply furnishing a home. I love music … and I don't think a $130,000 indoor-outdoor stereo system is extravagant. ”
- Leona Helmsley- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Be generous but not extravagant, be frugal but not miserly. ”
- Hazrat Ali Ibn e Abi Talib- Copy
- 3.2K
“ A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2K
“ Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 4K
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