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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Luckily I have a brother who looks after my administration and my money, because I'm a total spendthrift. -- Soundarya
Think of your pension and start saving. Like my father, I have been a spendthrift, and I regret that. -- Britt Ekland
I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family. -- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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
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
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
Every spendthrift passion has its attendant courtiers. -- Doris Lessing
The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red. -- Paul Scherrer
When I caution you against becoming a miser, I do not therefore advise you to become a prodigal or a spendthrift. -- Horace
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
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
In a country where nature has been so lavish and where we have been so spendthrift of indigenous beauty, to set aside a few rivers in their natural state should be considered an obligation. -- Frank Church
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? -- Ilana Mercer
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
It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense. They are themselves, always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society. -- Adam Smith
That we would do We should do when we would, for this 'would' changes, And hath abatements and delays as many As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents, And then this 'should' is like a spendthrift sigh, That hurts by easing. -- William Shakespeare
To purposely concoct older characters of a sunny disposition would be as much of a solecism as deliberately fabricating arrhythmic blacks, spendthrift Jews, slacker Japanese and so on. -- Will Self
Ah! the spendthrift, love: it gives all and everything with the first sigh! -- Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis
Devise some creed, and live it, beyond theirs,Or I shall think you but their spendthrift heirs. -- Edmund Blunden
Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine. -- George Bancroft
I wonder what spendthrift chose to spill Such a bright gold under my windowsill! Is it fair gold? Does it glitter still? Bless me! It's a daffodil! -- Celia Thaxter
What is charm then? The free giving of a grace, the spending of something given by nature in her role of spendthrift ... something extra, superfluous, unnecessary, essentially a power thrown away. -- Doris Lessing
You explode, if that's more to your taste, shoot yourself all around in endless darts, be prodigal, spendthrift, reckless: I shall implode, collapse inside the abyss of myself, towards my buried centre, infinitely. -- Italo Calvino
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

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