Spare Quotes
476 quotes by 388 authors
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Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.
— Andrew Marvell
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I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem.
— Fitz-Greene Halleck
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I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than…
— C.S. Lewis
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Spare no expense to make everything as economical as possible.
— Samuel Goldwyn
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To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.
— Lucian
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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase "It is…
— C. Northcote Parkinson
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Hardware is easy to protect: lock it in a room, chain it to a desk, or buy a spare. Information poses more of a problem.…
— Bruce Schneier
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To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in order to spare…
— Thomas Jefferson
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If you try to make your circle closed and exclusively yours, it never grows very much. Only a circle that has lots of room for…
— Zilpha Keatley Snyder
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Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. I am talking about a gung-ho attitude that says 'we can change things here, we can achieve awesome goals,…
— Colin Powell
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The greatest gift one can give is thanksgiving. In giving gifts, we give what we can spare, but in giving thanks we give ourselves.
— David Steindl-Rast
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Such is the moral construction of the world that no national crime passes unpunished in the long run... Were present oppressors to reflect on the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental…
— Ivan Pavlov
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Sometimes those who give the most are the ones with the least to spare.
— Unknown Author
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Also we will be carrying food and clothes for the Expedition Two crew. And as well as spare parts for the EVA that will be…
— Umberto Guidoni
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Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
— Edward Bernays
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Which of course is followed by: For those who have Awareness, a hint is quite enough. For the multitudes of heedless mere knowledge is useless.…
— Marcel Proust
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I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share…
— George Armstrong Custer
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Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who Wrote These Spare Quotes
388 authors contributed a total of 476 Spare Quotes, led by these top contributors: