Spend Quotes - page 2

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it. (William James)
I should on this account like well enough to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home. View quote
William Hazlitt
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday. View quote
Thornton Wilder
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal. View quote
Donald Rumsfeld
I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat. View quote
Antonin Artaud
Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself. View quote
Emil Cioran
I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: "What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me." View quote
Joseph Addison
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world. View quote
Willa Cather
I have spent 20 years writing these books. Had I wanted to say men are beasts and scream, that takes 30 seconds. (Andrea Dworkin)
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman? View quote
Woody Allen
Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be. View quote
Jean Rostand
Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it. View quote
Richard Whately
We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there. View quote
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Life is half spent before we know what it is. View quote
George Herbert
I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday. View quote
W. C. Fields
Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. View quote
John Muir
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui. (Helen Keller)
We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. View quote
John Steinbeck
Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me.After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together. View quote
Ray Bradbury
The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages. View quote
Jonathan Swift
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. View quote
William Wordsworth
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