Don't saddle me with your ideals, and spare me all your guilt. For a poet with all the answers, has never yet… — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
A mother would never by choice sleep in a wet bed but she would gladly do so in order to spare the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Woodman, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now. — George Pope Morris Copy Share Image
Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation-from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
My wish is that we design the future of learning. We don't want to be spare parts for a great human computer. — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
It is Proust's courtesy to spare the reader the embarrassment of believing himself cleverer than the author. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
I don't spend and save whenever I have spare cash. I dislike people who boast about money. — Geoff Capes Copy Share Image
When I was editor of the Erotic Review I fielded endless phone calls from elderly readers who thought I might like to… — Rowan Pelling Copy Share Image
At the end, [Eva Braun] begged me to spare these letters [to Adolf Hitler] and bury them. She specifically wrote to me… — Gretl Braun Copy Share Image
Elegance is reduction, simplification, condensation. It is spare, stark, sleek. Elegance is cultivated abstraction. The source of Greek and Roman classicism -… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I'm not immune to the charms of the female form. And when I was 17 and I spent every spare minute surfing,… — Simon Baker Copy Share Image
He that spareth in everything is an inexcusable niggard. He that spareth in nothing is an inexcusable madman. The mean is to… — Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax Copy Share Image
When I gave up my office job and became a full-time professional photographer, my fortunes certainly improved markedly. We moved away from… — Derek Ridgers Copy Share Image
We are compelled by the commandment of love contained in our hearts and thought, and proclaimed by Jesus, to give rein to… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Dilbert: I'm obsessed with inventing a perpetual motion machine. Most scientists think it's impossible, but I have something they don't. Dogbert: A… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Science is uncertain. Theories are subject to revision; observations are open to a variety of interpretations, and scientists quarrel amongst themselves. This… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Hold a baseball in your hand ... Feel the ball, turn it over in your hand; hold it across the seam or… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
Not rarely, and this is especially true of wives and mothers, the motive behind assuming a disproportionate share of work and responsibility… — Hortense Odlum Copy Share Image
Others may fashion more smoothly images of bronze (I for one believe it), evoke living faces from marble, plead causes better, trace… — Virgil Copy Share Image
Spare me therefore, your good intentions, your inner sensitivities, your unarticulated and unexpressed love. And spare me also these tedious psycho-historians which,… — Willard Gaylin Copy Share Image
Which of course is followed by: For those who have Awareness, a hint is quite enough. For the multitudes of heedless mere… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Whensoever God's truth is defaced or when any man turns away from the pure simplicity of the Gospel, we must not in… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment. It is commonly observed, that among soldiers and seamen, though there is much… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground. — John Milton Copy Share Image
All those words of praise they use for novels - spare, economical. Why should I shell out £17 for economical? — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Under our plan you can build wealth, even if you don't have a dollar to spare. — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
Let us leave a spare place at our table: a place for those who lack the basics, who are alone. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
We play short songs and short sets for people who don't have a lot of spare time. — Tommy Ramone Copy Share Image
I do not know what we should do without the pulpit. We could better spare the sun-the moon, anyway. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My first objective is to invest, and if I have anything spare, then I spend. — Shiv Khera Copy Share Image
No man rides harder than my Lord Scamperdale - always goes as if he had a spare neck in his pocket. — Robert Smith Surtees Copy Share Image
Who are we to wish for Paradise? It will be enough if Allah spares us his wrath. — Abu Hanifa Copy Share Image
Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate. — Ovid Copy Share Image
I make appearances, but I really want to spend more time fishing. That is what I really enjoy doing with my spare… — Larry Holmes Copy Share Image
Winter's palette is clear and spare, restrictive enough to curb the excesses of even the most daring gardeners. — Rosemary Verey Copy Share Image
Visions of glory, spare my aching sight! Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul! — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
A little Isadora Duncan and a little Butoh this was choreography and performing that was simultaneously both lush and spare. — Jennifer Dunning Copy Share Image
Spare me the mantra that the “fundamentals” are sound. Credit is the ultimate fundamental. — Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Copy Share Image