Spare Quotes

476 quotes by 388 authors

Gather the flowers, but spare the buds. — Andrew Marvell
I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem. — Fitz-Greene Halleck
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
Spare no expense to make everything as economical as possible. — Samuel Goldwyn
To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare. — Benjamin Franklin
Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend. — Lucian
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Sometimes those who give the most are the ones with the least to spare. — Unknown Author
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
Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time. — Edward Bernays
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
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
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

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