O! what a prodigal have I been of that most valuable of all possessions Time! — Theresa Villiers Copy Share Image
I do know when the blood burns, how prodigal the soul lends the tongue vows. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
To reclaim the prodigal is well, but to save him from ever being a prodigal is better. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind. — Horace Copy Share Image
“Prodigals are not always the runaways but sometimes are those who stay on the family path.” — Gary Wilkerson Copy Share Image
When you keep the porch light on for the prodigal child, you do what God does every single moment. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
One wastes so much time, one is so prodigal of life, at twenty! Our days of winter count for double. That is… — George Sand Copy Share Image
The difference between mercy and grace? Mercy gave the prodigal son a second chance. Grace gave him a feast. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
We Americans tend to be a prodigal lot. We are as careless with our personal resources as we are with the resources… — Catherine Crook de Camp Copy Share Image
Both poetry and philosophy are prodigal of eulogy over the mind which ransoms itself by its own energy from a captivity to… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
There is a trend today that would put a new robe on the prodigal son while he is still feeding hogs. Some… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Sometimes we are inclined to think that a very great portion of modern revivalism has been more a curse than a blessing,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Men of the greatest genius are not always the most prodigal of their encomiums. But then it is when their range of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I never understood redemption when I was young. Even before I was an atheist, I always thought with the prodigal son, "well,… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
Let us not be too prodigal when we are young, nor too parsimonious when we are old. Otherwise we shall fall into… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There's just no accounting for happiness, or the way it turns up like a prodigal who comes back to the dust at… — Jane Kenyon Copy Share Image
In Prodigal Son, Christine Sutton has penned a tight, brutally honest portrait of a psychopath reminiscent of Theodore Sturgeon's 'Some of Your… — Joe Copy Share Image
Long time a child, and still a child, when years Had painted manhood on my cheek, was I; For yet I lived… — Hartley Coleridge Copy Share Image
The forgiveness of God is gratuitous liberation from guilt. Paradoxically, the conviction of personal sinfulness becomes the occasion of encounter with the… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Summer is a prodigal of joy. The grass Swarms with delighted insects as I pass, And crowds of grasshoppers at every stride… — John Clare Copy Share Image
“Give me faith to step aside and let You work, especially in those times when I desire to influence, to persuade, to… — Shelly Beach Copy Share Image
“There are men regarded today as brilliant economists, who deprecate saving and recommend squandering on a national scale as the way of… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The parable of the prodigal son, the most beautiful fiction that ever was invented; our Saviour's speech to His disciples, with which… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Covetous men need money least, yet they most affect it; but prodigals, who need it most have the least regard for it. — Alexander Wilson Copy Share Image
To be a Prodigal's favourite,-then, worse truth, A Miser's pensioner,-behold our lot! — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
We deny that it is fun to be saving. It is fun to be prodigal. Go to the butterfly, thou parsimonious sluggard;… — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
I'm a prodigal son. The black sheep of a white flock. I shall die on the gallows. — William A. Drake Copy Share Image
One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
