Spendthrifts Quotes

#1. We are such spendthrifts with our lives, the trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I'm not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer, who puts back into the soil what he takes out.

Paul Newman

#2. A good many men and women want to get possession of secrets just as spendthrifts want to get money-for circulation.

George D. Prentice

#3. It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense. They are themselves, always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society.

Adam Smith

#4. We do not receive a life that is short, but rather we make it so; we are not beggar in it, but spendthrifts.

Seneca.

#5. The substitution of meaning accounts for the grasping of misers as well as the extravagance of spendthrifts. Karl Marx well understood this peculiar transformation of flesh into coin.

Lewis H. Lapham

#6. Financial uncertainty turns some people into misers and others into spendthrifts.

Rebecca Loncraine

#7. Certainly I think being an absentee farther helps in adding a layer of conflict.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

#8. Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.

Giovanni Boccaccio

#9. A placebo-controlled, double-blind, randomised trial of boys with autism found that two to three servings of cruciferous vegetables a day improves social interaction, abnormal behaviour and verbal communication - within a matter of weeks.

Michael Greger

#10. Genius - the pursuit of madness.

Criss Jami

#11. Glancing sideways, he said that he loved her. Then, turning rapidly, he walked away and entered a tobacco shop.

Vladimir Nabokov

#12. The intelligent have plans; the wise have principles.

Raheel Farooq

#13. Facing her fear turned out to be the only hard part.

Diane Chamberlain