Plenty Quotes

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. (Winston Churchill)
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music. View quote
George Eliot
The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much unintermittent gloom. View quote
Margaret Drabble
The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity. View quote
Thomas Love Peacock
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done. View quote
Alan Turing
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others. View quote
Otto Rank
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. View quote
Rebecca Wells
There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had plenty of them. View quote
Casey Stengel
I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I've got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that's the answer. View quote
Gertrude Stein
Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble. View quote
Joseph Addison
Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination. (Christopher Isherwood)
It is not enough just to identify a problem; there are plenty of people who were very skilled at pointing out what was wrong with the world, but they were not always so adept at working out how these things could be righted. View quote
Alexander McCall Smith
Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways. View quote
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I lived in a plenty tough neighborhood. When somebody called me a 'dirty little Guinea', there was only one thing to do-break his head. When I got older, I realized that you shouldn't do it that way. I realized that you've got to do it through education. Children are not to blame. It is the parents. How can a child know whether his playmate is an Italian, a Jew or Irish, unless the parents have discussed it in the privacy of their homes. View quote
Frank Sinatra
I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness; once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one. View quote
Euripides
During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
I have always had plenty of friends, and now at age sixty, I face four walls as a common prisoner. View quote
Albert Kesselring
If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A crowded police court docket is the surest of all signs that trade is brisk and money plenty. View quote
Mark Twain
No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Plenty of folks are so contrary that if they should fall into the river, they would insist upon floating upstream. (Josh Billings)
One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeeding in exams, and there are plenty of them. But what we should also be looking at, and a lot more urgently, is those who fail. View quote
Michael Morpurgo
I've always found women more loyal, more disciplined, less neurotic, more hardworking. I just think they're perfect colleagues. Whereas, God knows, I've dealt with plenty of neurotic men. View quote
Max Hastings
In life, we do not give employees enough leeway. If you look around Semco's office, there are plenty of empty desks. The question is - where are these people? I do not have the slightest idea, but I am not interested. View quote
Ricardo Semler
He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace. View quote
Arthur Henderson
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