Spendthrift Quotes

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser. It is better to live and be done with it, than to die daily in the sick-room. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
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. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine. View quote
George Bancroft
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. View quote
Louis A. Johnson
It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
The nineteenth century will colonize; so, in its fantasies, did the nineteenth century soul. When Emma [Bovary] turns spendthrift and buys curtains, carpets and hangings from the draper, the information takes on something from the theme of the novel itself: the material is a symbol of the exotic, and the exotic feeds the Romantic appetite. It will lead to satiety, bankruptcy and eventually to nihilism and the final drive towards death and nothingness. View quote
V. S. Pritchett
My mother taught me a Spanish saying,” he remarked, "that it takes four men to make a salad: a spendthrift for the oil, a philosopher for the seasonings, a miser for the vinegar, and a madman for the tossing. View quote
Poul Anderson
I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family. View quote
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
But public works, economic protectionism, cheap money, 'deficit-financed government spending,' and 'the animal spirits of the spendthrift' in the service of boosting 'consumption demand'... Doesn't Keynesianism simply appeal to the worst in human nature? View quote
Ilana Mercer
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. View quote
Robert Schumann
As a spendthrift squanders his money unthinking, so did my father give me away when yet a girl to his friend. Kunti complaining about her father. (Kunti)
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. View quote
Adam Hochschild
Think of your pension and start saving. Like my father, I have been a spendthrift, and I regret that. View quote
Britt Ekland
Luckily I have a brother who looks after my administration and my money, because I'm a total spendthrift. View quote
Soundarya
Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing ... nothing in the universe, is of any importance, or is authentic to any serious sense, except the illusions of romance. For man alone of animals plays the ape to his dreams. These axioms - poor, deaf and blinded spendthrift! View quote
James Branch Cabell