O! what a prodigal have I been of that most valuable of all possessions Time! — Theresa Villiers Copy Share Image
“Prodigals are not always the runaways but sometimes are those who stay on the family path.” — Gary Wilkerson 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
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
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
Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness. — William Wordsworth 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
Those that dare lose a day, ate dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, are desperate. — Joseph Hall 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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