Profligate Quotes
21 quotes by 18 authors
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It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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As to Don Juan, confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is it not good…
— Lord Byron
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Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just.
— Horace Mann
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In fact its quite gratifying for me to see some of the people who really objected to this method of working now being quite so…
— Derek Bailey
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There are three sorts of pleasures which are advantageous, and three which are injurious. Finding pleasure in the discriminating study of ceremonies and music, finding…
— Confucius
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Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate waste.
— George Perkins Marsh
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If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate, and criminal, we…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready to submit to…
— John Clare
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England was killed by an idea: the idea that the weak, indolent and profligate must be supported by the strong, industrious, and frugal – to…
— Dan Smoot
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We must surely appear to the world as exactly what we are: a nation that organizes its economy around consuming twice as much oil as…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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We, all of us in the First World, have participated in something of a binge, a half century of unbelievable prosperity and ease. We may…
— Bill McKibben
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Corporate bodies are more corrupt and profligate than individuals, because they have more power to do mischief, and are less amenable to disgrace or punishment.…
— William Hazlitt
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Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because…
— Joseph Story
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Nature is, above all, profligate. Don't believe them when they tell you how economical and thrifty nature is, whose leaves return to the soil. Wouldn't…
— Annie Dillard
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There comes a turning point in intense physical struggle where one abandons oneself to a profligate usage of strength and bodily resource, ignoring the costs…
— Diana Gabaldon
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Few things linger longer or become more indwelling than that feeling of both completion and emptiness when a great book ends. That the book accompanies…
— Pat Conroy
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Equality is. one of the most consummate scoundrels that ever crept from the brain of a political juggler--a fellow who thrusts his hand into the…
— James Kirke Paulding
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As to 'Don Juan,' confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is it not good…
— Lord Byron
Who Wrote These Profligate Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 21 Profligate Quotes as follows: