Mozart, prodigal heaven gave thee everything, grace and strength, abundance and moderation, perfect equilibrium. — Charles Gounod Copy Share Image
But by faith you look in the mirror and see a robed prodigal bearing the ring of grace on your finger and… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Sight is a slick and overbearing autocrat, trumpeting its prodigal knowledge and perceptions so forcefully that it drowns out the other, subtler… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Mankind are always found prodigal both of blood and treasure in the maintenance of public justice. — David Hume Copy Share Image
Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Search out the wisdom of nature, there is depth in all her doings; she seemeth prodigal of power, yet her rules are… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
Love never reasons, but profusely gives, Gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, And trembles then, lest it has done too little. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
There is a tiny yellow daffodil, The butterfly can see it from afar, Although one summer evening's dew could fill Its little… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Nature can afford to be prodigal in everything, the artist must be frugal down to the last detail. Nature is garrulous to… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
We have been the most prodigal of people with land, and for years we wasted it with impunity. There was so much… — William H. Whyte Copy Share Image
Every day is a little life, and our whole life is but a day repeated. Therefore live every day as if it… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
Hope is a prodigal young heir, and Experience is his banker; but his drafts are seldom honoured, since there is often a… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There is no tongue that flatters like a lover's; and yet, in the exaggeration of his feelings, flattery seems to him commonplace.… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy;Is it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal. Her giving to man… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The Prodigal Son story is, I think, the greatest short-story ever written. It has such drama in it, such great characters, it's… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If men with fleshly mortals must be fed, and chew with bleeding teeth the breathing bread; what else is this but to… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
Nothing is more detestable to the physical anthropologist than... the wretched habit of cremating the dead. It involves not only a prodigal… — Earnest Hooton Copy Share Image
Jesus disclosed that God is compassionate. Jesus spoke of God that way: "Be compassionate, as God is compassionate." Compassion is the primary… — Marcus Borg Copy Share Image
Business in a certain sort of men is a mark of understanding, and they are honored for it. Their souls seek repose… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
When engaged in safe occupations, and living in healthy countries, men are much more apt to be frugal, than in unhealthy, or… — John Rae Copy Share Image
[The Return of the Prodigal book] came out of my emotional and spiritual journey during the four months I was gone from… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Those that dare lose a day, ate dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, are desperate. — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
My writing has developed drastically . The Return of the Prodigal Son is the most important thing I've done, and my most… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
When I caution you against becoming a miser, I do not therefore advise you to become a prodigal or a spendthrift. — Horace Copy Share Image
Nothing lies on our hands with such uneasiness as time. Wretched and thoughtless creatures! In the only place where covetousness were a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It is for us to begin. If we take one step towards the Lord, he takes ten towards us -- he who… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
I do not believe we can truly enter into our own inner pain and wounds and open our hearts to others unless… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
In the great wealth, the great firmament of your nation's generosities this particular choice may perhaps be found by future generations as… — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
There whil'st the world prov'd prodigal of breath, the headless trunks lay prostrated in heaps; this field of funerals sacred unto death,… — William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling Copy Share Image
To my way of thinking, the concept drawings that Rembrandt did, the drawings he made that he used to model his artists,… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image