Plentiful Quotes

• The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

  William Blake

  Happiness, Thank You, Thanksgiving

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.133, Pearson Education

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• Talk is cheap. Words are plentiful. Deeds are precious.

  Ross Perot

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Communication

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• Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.

  Adam Hochschild

  Time, Hardship, Distraction

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• I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling.

  Lech Walesa

  Falling In Love, Historical, World

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• Earth is abundant with plentiful resources. Our practice of rationing resources through monetary control is no longer relevant and is counter-productive to our survival.

  Jacque Fresco

  Practice, Survival, Earth

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• America's workers face a battle for their jobs. They are the finest workers in the world. American workers grow, harvest, and mine some of the world's highest quality and most plentiful raw materials.

  Christopher Bond

  Jobs, America, Battle

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• Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

  Frank Zappa

  Block, Stupid, Humor

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

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• Stupidity is the basic building block of the universe.

  Frank Zappa

  Block, Stupidity And Ignorance, Hydrogen

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

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• The beautiful is never plentiful.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Beautiful

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Susan Sutton Smith, Ralph H. Orth (1990). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.95, University of Missouri Press

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• Roland could not understand why anyone would want cocaine or any other illegal drug, for that matter, in a world where such a powerful one as sugar was so plentiful and cheap.

  Stephen King

  Powerful, Drug, World

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• The world is plentiful with honey, but only the humble bee can collect it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Humble, Intelligence

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• We are overcome by the "cares ... of this life" when we are paralyzed by fear of the future, which hinders our going forward in faith, trusting in God and His promises. It is up to each of us to set the priorities and to do the things that make our soil good and our harvest plentiful.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Priorities, Promise, Overcoming

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• It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want of sense on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages?

  William Booth

  Stupidity, Battle, Investing

  William Booth (2014). “In Darkest England and the Way Out”, p.44, Cambridge University Press

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• Cats mean kittens, plentiful and frequent.

  Doris Lessing

  Mean, Cat, Kitten

  Doris Lessing (2012). “On Cats”, p.9, HarperCollins UK

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• Rattlesnakes are only too plentiful everywhere; along the river bottoms, in the broken, hilly ground, and on the prairies and the great desert wastes alike...If it can it will get out of the way, and only coils up in its attitude of defence when it believes that it is actually menaced.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Attitude, Believe, Rivers

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• Here on the edge of the river, the motifs are very plentiful, the same subject seen from a different angle gives a subject for study of the highest interest and so varied that I think I could be occupied for months without changing my place, simply bending a little more to the right or left.

  Paul Cezanne

  Thinking, Rivers, Giving

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• The Sundaies of man's life, Thredded together on time's string, Make bracelets to adorn the wife Of the eternal, glorious King. On Sunday heaven's gates stand ope; Blessings are plentiful and rife. More plentiful than hope.

  George Herbert

  Kings, Sunday, Men

  George Herbert (1835). “The Works of George Herbert: Poems”, p.73

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• Boredom is actually the most plentiful substance in the universe.

  Amber Dermont

  Boredom, Substance, Universe

  Amber Dermont (2012). “The Starboard Sea: A Novel”, p.63, Macmillan

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• Foolish jokers are thick on the ground, and it rains insects of that sort everywhere. A good joker is a rarity; even a man who is such by nature finds it hard to sustain the part for long; it seldom happens that the man who makes us laugh wins our esteem.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Country, Way, Kind

  "Of Society And Conversation". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• As a writer, I am not goddess of the universes I create. I am at most a stage manager of the plentiful gifts which tumble out of the horn of plenty, which is to say there is a source so sweet and forgiving and generous that I pray every day to let that source be my guide.

  Rebecca Wells

  Sweet, Forgiving, Praying

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• A rare spoil for a man Is the winning of a good wife; very Plentiful are the worthless women.

  Euripides

  Marriage, Winning, Men

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus”, p.149, University of Chicago Press

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• Coal boosters like to tout coal as cheap and plentiful - well, not anymore. At least not in China.

  Jeff Goodell

  Coal, China, Wells

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• In 1736, Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette printed an apology for its irregular appearence because its printer was "with the Press, labouring for the publick Good, to make Money more plentiful." The press was busy printing money.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Apology, Printing Money, Pennsylvania

  "Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter V, "Of Paper," p. 54, 1975.

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• Snowy winter, a plentiful harvest.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Winter, Harvest, Snowy

  Benjamin Franklin (1849). “Poor Richard's almanac for 1850-52”, p.28

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• For those dependent on their gardens for fresh food, it was often a case of feast or famine... (One settler wrote), "Strawberries were now so plentiful that... I made 287 lbs of jam..."

  Bee Dawson

  Garden, Jam, Made

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