Top 86 Quotes About Spares
#2. What spares us is memory," he said. "It's what makes us worth saving. However low we sink, whatever promise we no longer fulfill, we tell our stories. That's why you're so important, Charlie. You're a guardian of our national memory.
Frederick Weisel
#3. 'Amusement' is appealing because we don't have to think; it spares us the fear and anxiety that might otherwise prey on our thoughts.
John Ortberg
#4. Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
Anatole France
#5. There is a God! the sky his presence shares,
His hand upheaves the billows in their mirth,
Destroys the mighty, yet the humble spares
And with contentment crowns the thought of worth.
Charlotte Saunders Cushman
#6. A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It's a vice, at times a comfort, or a selfishness.
Albert Camus
#7. There's no blade sharper than the truth under the Sun, it's enlightens the mind, releases the captives, condemns the guilty and spares the innocent; it's the only weapon a hero ever needs to fight a war, the one which is conducted without a need of any Iron blade!
Marcus L. Lukusa
#9. The vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.
Edward Gibbon
#10. Everyone is in pain.No matter where they come from or what you think of them. Sorrow spares no one
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#11. The advance of science spares us from irrational dread.
Martin Rees
#12. I'm a Roman Catholic. Or was. I was brought up that way and used to say my prayers every night, but I don't pray to God any more. I might use the usual phrases I picked up from my parents, 'Oh, if God spares me next year ... ' or 'Please God ... ' but they're only phrases.
Cilla Black
#13. The pious farmer, who ne'er misses pray'rs, With patience suffers unexpected rain; He blesses Heav'n for what its bounty spares, And sees, resign'd, a crop of blighted grain. But, spite of sermons, farmers would blaspheme, If a star fell to set their thatch on flame.
Mary Wortley Montagu
#14. People in low life have no such privilege. Necessity, which spares our betters, has no pity on us. We learn to put our feelings back into ourselves, and to jog on with our duties as patiently as may be.
Wilkie Collins
#15. People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.
Brooks Atkinson
#16. Every action has equal and opposite reaction. This is law of the universe and spares none. Wrong done and injustice inflicted is paid back in the same coin. No one has escaped justice of the universe. It is only a matter of time.
Anil Sinha
#17. I realize now that tragedy spares no one; it just courts each of us differently.
Gwendolyn M. Plano
#18. During episodes of unemployment I find it rewarding to sleep as much as possible-anything from twelve to fourteen hours a day is a good starting point. Sleep spares you humiliation and saves money at the same time: nothing to eat, nothing to buy, just lie back and dream your life away.
David Sedaris
#19. AIDS respects no national boundaries; spares no race or religion; devastates men and women, rich and poor.No country can ignore this crisis. Fighting AIDS is an urgent calling - because every life, in every land, has value and dignity.
Laura Bush
#20. [Love] is the type of disease that spares neither the intelligent nor the idiotic.
Albert Camus
#21. God spares us because He is good, but He could not be good if He were not just.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#22. I've always been a very careful sailor. I know, me and being careful - doesn't really sound right, does it? But when I sail, I take it seriously and take along spares for everything. You have to be careful when you're 1,500 miles from land. There's no one you can call. You're on your own.
David Crosby
#23. Good friend for Jesus sake forbeare, To digg the dust encloased heare! Blest be the man that spares thes stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.
William Shakespeare
#24. On the day when I act," says the LORD Almighty, "they will be my treasured possession. I will spare them, just as a father has compassion and spares his son who serves him. And you will again see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.
Anonymous
#26. Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
Voltaire
#27. Anger met with anger only increases enmity rather than diffusing a tense situation. Anger, in turn, gives birth to hate. In such cases the wisest thing to do is not to engage through emotion. Emotions are self-centered and denying them spares animosity.
Donna Lynn Hope
#28. In bowling and in life, if a person made the spares, the strikes would take care of themselves.
Stephen King
#29. But fantasies are often the best thing we can make of our multiple and contradictory wishes; they allow us to inhabit one reality without destroying the other. Fantasizing spares those we care about from the full irresponsibility and scary strangeness of our urges.
Alain De Botton
#30. [Winston Churchill] never spares himself in conversation. He gives himself so generously that hardly anyone else is permitted to give anything in his presence.
Aneurin Bevan
#32. Stealing someone else's words frequently spares the embarrassment of eating your own.
Peter Anderson
#33. Bonis nocet, qui malis parcit.
He harms the good (people) who spares the evil.
Seneca.
#34. The advertising man who spares the midnight oil will not get very far
Claude C. Hopkins
#35. Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself, he kills to attack, he kills to defend himself, he kills to instruct himself, he kills to amuse himself, he kills for the sake of killing.
Joseph De Maistre
#36. God's beautiful woman spares no effort to provide the best she can for her beloved family.
Elizabeth George
#37. Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.
Lord Byron
#38. He spares no resource in telling of his dead inventions ... Bare verbs he rarely tolerates. He splits infinitives and fills them up with adverbial stuffing. He presses the passing colloquialism into his service. His vast paragraphis sweat and struggle; the
H.G.Wells
#39. What is needed is a form of tax which not only spares the small man at the expense of his wealthier rival, but actually subsidizes the small man where subsidy is necessary.
Hilaire Belloc
#40. Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.
Matthew Arnold
#41. Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.
Pope John Paul II
#42. The world spares only those who remain modest and humble - and even then only for an interval, no more.
Sandor Marai
#43. He who has far to ride spares his horse.
Jean Racine
#44. World is so full of idiots that you can't even imagine to escape. The only solution is isolation. But it still spares one!
Raheel Farooq
#45. The American oligarchy spares no pains in promoting the belief that it does not exist, but the success of its disappearing act depends on equally strenuous efforts on the part of an American public anxious to believe in egalitarian fictions and unwilling to see what is hidden in plain sight.
Michael Lind
#46. One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.
Edward Coke
#47. One reason we rush so quickly to the vulgar satisfactions of judgment, and love to revel in our righteous outrage, is that it spares us from the impotent pain of empathy, and the harder, messier work of understanding.
Tim Kreider
#48. There's nothing sweeter than a real friend:
Not only is he prompt to lend
An angler delicate, he fishes
The very deepest of your wishes,
And spares your modesty the task
His friendly aid to ask.
A dream, a shadow, wakes his fear,
When pointing at the object dear.
Jean De La Fontaine
#49. It is a truism to say that a good experiment is precisely that which spares us the exertion of thinking: the better it is, the less we have to worry about its interpretation, about what it really means.
Peter Medawar
#50. We had better be without God's laws than the Pope's." To which Tyndale passionately responded: "I defy the Pope, and all his laws; and if God spares my life, ere many years, I will cause the boy that driveth the plow to know more of the Scriptures than thou dost!
William Tyndale
#51. Who are we to wish for Paradise? It will be enough if Allah spares us his wrath.
Abu Hanifa
#52. The quality of a conqueror is to be judged as much by what he spears as by what he spares
Agona Apell
#53. For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.
Amelia Barr
#54. If we go back to the beginnings of things, we shall always find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that imagination, rapture and deception embellished them; that weakness worships them; that custom spares them; and that tyranny favors them in order to profit from the blindness of men.
Baron D'Holbach
#55. When the International Space Station is finally launched, it will be fitted with special nickel-hydrogen batteries weighing a total of several tons, with a lifetime of just five years, requiring spares to be brought up from Earth at literally astronomical expense.
Charles Platt
#57. He who will travel far spares his steed.
Jean Racine
#58. How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Albert Camus
#59. How could sincerity be a condition of friendship? A liking for the truth at all costs is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing can withstand.
Albert Camus
#60. Everyone in my family always spares one another's feelings. It leaves little room for honesty.
Sara Farizan
#61. When a chivalrous man makes an oath, he is faithful to it, and when he attains power, he spares his enemy.
Muhammad Ali
#63. My memory plays me odd tricks these days [...] Age spares us nothing, old friend. Like ancient trees, we die from the top.
Gore Vidal
#64. War spares not the brave, but the cowardly.
Anacreon
#65. What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires, and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.
Jean De La Fontaine
#66. Discipline is something we despise for the moment ... We all look for a place to run, an excuse with which to stall. No one enjoys it. Yet those of us who have endured it know that the fruit it produces and the pain from which it ultimately spares us makes it worth the agony.
Charles Stanley
#67. We know that death never skips or spares anybody and that no one ever returns. And yet we go on like the blind, who see as little at midday as in the pitch-dark night. We do not take these examples to heart; we do not realize that today or tomorrow our turn will come.
Martin Luther
#68. Never! while heaven spares my reason,' replied I, snatching away the hand he had presumed to seize and press between his own.
Anne Bronte
#69. Insights are everything. They play central parts in the actualization of destiny. A dangerous insights becomes a colossal executioner. Latching your fate with noble thoughts spares you a life of self-limitation.
Darmie Orem
#70. When spares are spared, when time is turned, when unseen children murder their fathers: Then will the Dark Lord return.
J.K. Rowling
#71. God has infinite attention to spare for each one of us.
C.S. Lewis
#72. Do not spare me in anything
let there be less and less of me in everything.
Mother Teresa
#73. Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad.
Horace
#75. Spare no expense to make everything as economical as possible.
Samuel Goldwyn
#78. Better spare to have of thine own, then aske of other men.
[Better spare to have of thine own than ask of other men.]
George Herbert
#79. Let us leave a spare place at our table: a place for those who lack the basics, who are alone.
Pope Francis
#80. There's only one earth. And there's no spare.
Wubbo Ockels
#81. Spare the child and spoil the rod, I am not sellin' myself to god.
Patti Smith
#82. I'm just a hoofer with a spare set of tails.
Fred Astaire
#86. As soon as I had a guitar I loved it, and I started playing in every spare moment.
David Rawlings