Spendthrift Quotes

• It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Health, Waste, Misers

  Virginibus Puerisque Ch. 5

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• I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family.

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

  Rich Family, Just Being, My Family

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• Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Way, Environment

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2268, Delphi Classics

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• None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Mean, Secret, Purpose

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.32

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• This nation can no longer tolerate the autonomous conduct of any single service. A waste of the resources of America in spendthrift defense is an invitation to disaster for America.

  Louis A. Johnson

  America, Waste, Defense

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• The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Heirs, Misery, Misers

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• Luckily I have a brother who looks after my administration and my money, because I'm a total spendthrift.

  Soundarya

  Brother, Looks, Administration

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• My indifference to money and my spendthrift ways are disgraceful. You have no idea how reckless I am; how often I practically throw money out of the window. I am always making good resolutions, but the next minute I forget and give the waiter eightpence.

  Robert Schumann

  Ideas, Giving, Way

  Robert Schumann (1907). “The Letters of Robert Schumann”

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• Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

  Paul Scherrer

  Love, Home, Red

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• Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.

  Adam Hochschild

  War, Lying, Loss

  "Where Have All the Graveyards Gone? The War That Didn’t End War and Its Unending Successors" by Adam Hochschild, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2011.

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• If the Nation is living within its income, its credit is good. If, in some crises, it lives beyond its income for a year or two, it can usually borrow temporarily at reasonable rates. But if, like a spendthrift, it throws discretion to the winds, and is willing to make no sacrifice at all in spending; if it extends its taxing to the limit of the peoples power to pay and continues to pile up deficits, then it is on the road to bankruptcy.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Sacrifice, Years, Wind

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1928-1932, Volume 1”, p.797, Best Books on

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• The Sussex lanes were very lovely in the autumn ... spendthrift gold and glory of the year-end ... earth scents and the sky winds and all the magic of the countryside which is ordained for the healing of the soul.

  Monica Baldwin

  Fall, Healing, Autumn

  Monica Baldwin (1950). “I Leap Over the Wall: Contrasts and Impressions After Twenty-eight Years in a Convent”

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• None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Mean, Gossip, Secret

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.32

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• When it comes to money, you can't win. If you focus on making it, you're materialistic. If you try to but don't make any, you're a loser. If you make a lot and keep it, you're a miser. If you make it and spend it, you're a spendthrift. If you don't care about making it, you're unambitious. If you make a lot and still have it when you die, you're a fool-for trying to take it with you. The only way to really win with money is to hold it loosely-and be generous with it to accomplish things of value.

  John C. Maxwell

  Money, Winning, Focus

  John C. Maxwell (2006). “Motivated to Succeed”, p.69, Grupo Nelson

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• Every spendthrift passion has its attendant courtiers.

  Doris Lessing

  Passion, Courtiers

  Doris Lessing (2010). “Shikasta: Re, Colonised Planet 5”, p.301, Vintage

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• 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

  Life, Running, Thinking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Think of your pension and start saving. Like my father, I have been a spendthrift, and I regret that.

  Britt Ekland

  Regret, Father, Thinking

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• Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Life, Memories, Mind

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4655, Library of Alexandria

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• capital is the result of saving, and not of spending. The spendthrift who wastes his substance in riotous living decreases the capital of the country, and therefore the excuse often made for extravagance, that it is good for trade, is based upon false notions respecting capital.

  Millicent Fawcett

  Country, Extravagance, Substance

  Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1870). “Political Economy for Beginners”, p.28, London ; Cambridge : Macmillan

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• According to the Spanish proverb, four persons are wanted to make a good salad: a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a counsellor for salt and a madman to stir it all up.

  John Gerard

  Food, Oil, Cooking

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• My parents never had any money. It was cash flow. It flows, and you got your fingers in it for a little while, and it flows away. That's all I know about money. And I don't know, it flows and it's a river, but you can never, ever keep it. As an artist, I can't keep it. But hey, a man who dies with a cent in the bank is a foolish man. So I guess I'm going against the conservators. I'm a spendthrift.

  Dan Aykroyd

  Artist, Men, Cash Flow

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• 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

  Flesh, Peculiar, Extravagance

  "Money And Class In America: Notes And Observations On Our Civil Religion" by Lewis H. Lapham, (Chapter 8, Holy Dread, p. 211), 1989.

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• The life that is demanding to be born is limitless. Nature is a spendthrift. Look at the fish and their millions of eggs. For that matter, look at you and me. In our loins are the possibilities of millions of lives. Could we but find time and opportunity and utilize the last bit and every bit of the unborn life that is in us, we could become the fathers of nations and populate continents.

  Jack London

  Life, Father, Opportunity

  Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.552, Delphi Classics

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• Ah! the spendthrift, love: it gives all and everything with the first sigh!

  Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis

  Love, Giving, Firsts

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• Were all the pleasures in the world, even pure air, made solely for the rich? I think it is immoral - it is horrible! - that one man may own twenty millions of money, and another has to commit a crime to keep the life in his miserable body. And if I were wealthy, I'd be a spendthrift! It's the spendthrifts who are the real friends of the poor. Some of their money filters through to the very lowest classes.

  Ellen Buckingham Mathews

  Real, Men, Thinking

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