“ The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck. ”
- Theodore Roosevelt- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Die for adultery! No: The wren goes to't, and the small gilded fly does lecher in my sight. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2.3K
“ It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser. ”
- Robert Louis Stevenson- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Free livers on a small scale; who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea. ”
- Washington Irving- Copy
- 2.5K
“ The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly. ”
- Ben Johnson- Copy
- 3K
“ Nothing is more precious than time, and those who misspend it are the greatest of all prodigals. ”
- Theophrastus- Copy
- 504
“ 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
- 2.2K
“ Boys are the cash of war. Whoever said: we're not free spenders - doesn't know our like. ”
- John Ciardi- Copy
- 855
“ None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
- 1.4K
“ 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
- 497
“ 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
- 835
“ 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
- 1.6K
“ 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
- 175
“ 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
- 2.4K
“ He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes. ”
- Thomas B. Macaulay- Copy
- 1.1K
“ I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest - or without. ”
- Edward Weston- Copy
- 1.9K
“ It was built when public architecture mattered,... Now, it would be called wasteful spending. ”
- Henry Chadwick- Copy
- 2.8K
“ While playing golf today I hit two good balls. I stepped on a rake. ”
- Henry Youngman- Copy
- 2.6K
“ People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage? ”
- Imelda Marcos- Copy
- 1.4K
“ She was a spendthrift of the spirit, an American in Paris when, as Evelyn Waugh said, the going was good. ”
- Anatole Broyard- Copy
- 2.6K
“ I've actually been turned down for jobs because I was in Playboy. ”
- Karen McDougal- Copy
- 2.7K
“ George W. Bush is a simple-minded but honest man who put too much faith in duplicitous advisors. ”
- Richard Cohen- Copy
- 712
“ 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
- 436
“ Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker. ”
- Charles Colton- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Congratulate yourselves if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotomy of a decorous age. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 2K
“ Instruction does not prevent waster of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all. ”
- James Froude- Copy
- 1.6K
“ 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
- 1.8K
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