Spare Quotes
476 quotes by 402 authors
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Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a…
— Matthew Arnold
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In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of…
— Jean Baudrillard
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No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from…
— Martha Beck
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Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.
— Josh Billings
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My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal.
— Geraldine Brooks
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Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks.
— Ron Chernow
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There's time enough, but none to spare.
— Charles W. Chesnutt
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Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.
— Thomas Aquinas
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Spare yourselves from the indulgence of self-pity. It is always self-defeating. Subdue the negative and emphasize the positive.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation-from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun.
— Byron Katie
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If I had a prayer, it would be this: "God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen."
— Byron Katie
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Drinking coffee is kinda my major hobby... the great benefit of being an actor is you have all this spare time. My ideal is just…
— Craig Parker
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Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Others may fashion more smoothly images of bronze (I for one believe it), evoke living faces from marble, plead causes better, trace with a wand…
— Virgil
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It seems that nature, which has so wisely disposed our bodily organs with a view to our happiness, has also bestowed on us pride, to…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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He types his labored column - weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn.
— Robertson Davies
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Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done…
— Martin Luther
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When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare…
— Alice Duer Miller
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I strongly oppose cloning, as do most Americans. We recoil at the idea of growing human beings for spare body parts or creating life for…
— George W. Bush
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Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.
— Anselm of Canterbury
Who Wrote These Spare Quotes
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