Prodigality Quotes

10 quotes by 8 authors

Frugality is good if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses; the last is bestowing them to the benefit of… — William Penn
That plenty should produce either covetousness or prodigality is a perversion of providence; and yet the generality of men are the worse for their riches. — William Penn
If time be of all things most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again; and what we… — Benjamin Franklin
Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste. — Baltasar Gracian
As regards the celebrated struggle for life, it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It does occur, but… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The simplicity of winter has a deep moral. The return of Nature, after such a career of splendor and prodigality, to habits so simple and… — John Burroughs
Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating but insatiable lust… — Charles Caleb Colton
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality. — Benjamin Franklin
The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality… — FranÃ§ois La Rochefoucauld Duc De

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