All things Quote by Benjamin Franklin

If time be of all things most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again; and what…

— Benjamin Franklin

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be, as Poor Richard says, “the greatest prodigality'; since, as he elsewhere…

— Benjamin Franklin

Prodigality of Time produces Poverty of Mind as well as of Estate.

— Benjamin Franklin

My time is precious and you're wasting it

— Anonymous

Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct.

— Adam Smith

Prodigality is indeed the vice of a weak nature, as avarice is of a strong one; it comes of a weak craving for those…

— Henry Taylor

Corrupt influence is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder; it loads us more than millions of debt; takes away…

— Edmund Burke

Passions often produce their contraries: avarice sometimes leads to prodigality, and prodigality to avarice; we are often obstinate through weakness and daring through timidity.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and…

— Anonymous

there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.

— Charles Caleb Colton

The injury of prodigality leads to this, that he who will not economize will have to agonize.

— Confucius