Plenty Quotes - Page 36

• Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.

  Cesare Pavese

  Despise

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.78, Transaction Publishers

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• The average man won't really do a day's work unless he is caught and cannot get out of it. There is plenty of work to do if people would do it.

  Henry Ford

  Men, Average, People

  Sunday Times Signal from Zanesville, Ohio, March 15, 1931.

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• Old age is
  a flight of small
  cheeping birds
  skimming
  bare trees
  above a snow glaze.
  Gaining and failing
  they are buffeted
  by a dark wind -
  But what?
  On harsh weedstalks
  the flock has rested -
  the snow
  is covered
  with broken
  seed husks
  and the wind tempered
  with a shrill
  piping of plenty.

  William Carlos Williams

  Dark, Wind, Snow

  "To Awaken an Old Lady". The Dial, August 1920.

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• Whenever they tell me children want this sort of book and children need this sort of writing, I am going to smile politely and shut my earlids. I am a writer, not a caterer. There are plenty of caterers. But what children most want and need is what we and they don't know they want and don't think they need, and only writers can offer it to them.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Children, Book, Writing

  "A Message About Messages". Personal website, www.ursulakleguin.com.

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• I borrow to pay my honest debts and not to squander foolishly. What's more, I confine my borrowing to those who can well afford it. I don't go around sponging on widows and orphans unless they have plenty.

  Will Cuppy

  Widows And Orphans, Debt, Pay

  "I'm Not the Budget Type". Scribner's Magazine CII (6), p. 19-21, 1937.

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• Social scientists could supply plenty of research to show that one member of the family, at least, is happier and more well adjusted when mum stays home and looks after the children. But that person is dada finding of limited use to backlash publicists.

  Susan Faludi

  Children, Home, Looks

  1992 Backlash (UK edn), ch.2,'Man Shortages and Barren Wombs'.

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• The chief difference between me and others is that I have plenty of time not only because I am without a multitude of responsibilities and without daily tasks, which demand attention: But also because I am basically without ambition. Neither the present nor the future has claims on me.

  Eric Hoffer

  Ambition, Responsibility, Daily Tasks

  "Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook" by Tom Bethell in Harper's Magazine, July 2005.

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• Aristocracy is a relative thing. And there are plenty of out-of-the-way places where the son of an upholsterer is the arbiter of fashion and reigns over a court like any young Prince of Wales.

  Marcel Proust

  Fashion, Son, Aristocracy

  Marcel Proust (1982). “Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's way. Within a budding grove”, Vintage

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• A crowded police docket is the surest of all signs that trade is brisk and money plenty.

  Mark Twain

  Police, Trade, Crowded

  Mark Twain (1872). “Roughing It”, p.360, Buccaneer Books

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• 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.

  Gertrude Stein

  Sound, Answers, Has Beens

  Gertrude Stein (1946). “Brewsie and Willie”

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• Forgiveness is the best charity. (It is easy to give the poor money and goods when one has plenty, but to forgive is hard; but it is the best thing if one can do it.)

  Meher Baba

  Giving, Charity, Easy

  "The Everything and the Nothing". Book by Meher Baba, 1963.

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• Well I've seen travel in many waysI've traveled in cars and old subwaysBut in Birmingham some people choseTo fly down the street from a fire hose.Doin' some hard travelin'...from hydrants of plenty.

  Phil Ochs

  Fire, People, Car

  Song: Talking Birmingham Jam

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• Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.

  Novalis

  Soil, Harvest, Poor

  Motto for "Pollen and Fragments" by Novalis, 1798.

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• Today we hear a great deal about Organizational Men, Mass Culture, Conformity, the Lonely Crowd, the Power Elite and its Conspiracy of Mediocrity. We forget that the very volume of this criticism is an indication that our society is still radically pluralistic. Not only are there plenty of exceptionalists who take exception to the stereotyping of the mass culture but that very string of epithets comes from a series of books that have been recent best-sellers, symptoms of a popular, living tradition of dissent from things as they are.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Lonely, Book, Men

  "An Autobiographical Novel". Book by Kenneth Rexroth. Introduction, www.bopsecrets.org. 1991.

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• Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate for the public good. The gratitude of the nation to the sovereign arbiter of all human events should be commensurate with the boundless blessings which we enjoy. Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.

  James K. Polk

  Country, Gratitude, Blessing

  James K. Polk (2009). “Messages and Papers of the Presidents: James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, and Franklin Pierce”, p.2479, Wildside Press LLC

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• [Drug] Addiction is awful, the worst if it is your kid. Plenty of loving parents who did everything "right" find themselves with kids caught up with drugs, and plenty of absentee parents have kids who never touch the stuff.

  Roxanne Roberts

  Kids, Addiction, Parent

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Twelve to seventeen minutes is plenty on the treadmill--if it's done fast. That's all you need for cardiovascular benefit. You don't need to spend that extra time unless you are over weight and you need to burn off extra calories. Do it vigorously, like somebody is chasing you. You've got to do it hard. Otherwise, if you just take it easy and do it longer, you are spending all that time when you don't need it. Use that extra time with your weights instead.

  Jack LaLanne

  Extra Time, Needs, Use

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• Man cannot live in the midst of plenty.

  Thomas Malthus

  Men, Midst

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated”, p.83, eKitap Projesi

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• Fair summer droops, droop men and beasts therefore: So fair a summer look for never more. All good things vanish, less than in a day, Peace, plenty, pleasure, suddenly decay. Go not yet away, bright soul of the sad year; The earth is hell when thou leav'st to appear.

  Thomas Nashe

  Summer, Men, Years

  1592 Summer's Last Will and Testament,'Song'.

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• I don't want to say my biggest mistake--I don't want to tell the whole world that. Trust me, I've made plenty. But I don't regret them because they've made me the person that I am right now.

  Britney Spears

  Regret, Mistake, Want

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• The characters are great, and this is the first adventure of the brothers Grimm, so there's plenty of potential to make a franchise. We've been quite successful in the past, so anything like that, if it does pay off with hopefully the good movie that I think it will be, it pays off also down the road.

  Bob Weinstein

  Brother, Adventure, Character

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• I have plenty of enemies... among artists who resent my earning a living. They think I should go off and starve while painting something 'significant.

  Arnold Friberg

  Money, Artist, Thinking

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• Finlay was the godfather of a problem that's rampant everywhere today. He called the people who made his work 'collaborators'... nowadays it's 'fabricators'... talented people who are grateful, desperate and thwarted. There's plenty of them.

  Alexander Stoddart

  Grateful, People, Collaboration

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• Voltaire remarked that it is possible to kill a flock of sheep by witchcraft if you give them plenty of arsenic at the same time. The sheep, in this figure, may well stand for the complacent apologists of capitalism; Marx's penetrating insight and bitter hatred of oppression supply the arsenic, while the labour theory of value provides the incantations.

  Joan Robinson

  Sheep, Giving, Hatred

  Joan Robinson (1967). “Essay on Marxian Economics”, p.22, Springer

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• It is to labor, and to labor only, that man owes everything possessed of exchangeable value. Labor is the talisman that has raised him from the condition of the savage: that has changed the desert and the forest into cultivated fields; that has covered the earth with cities, and the ocean with ships; that has given us plenty, comfort, and elegance, instead of want, misery, and barbarism.

  John Ramsay McCulloch

  Ocean, Men, Cities

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