This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
"If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough always proves little enough. Let us then be up and doing, and doing to the purpose; so by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity." - Benjamin Franklin
"That plenty should produce either covetousness or prodigality is a perversion of providence; and yet the generality of men are the worse for their riches." - William Penn
"Capitals are increased by parsimony, and diminished by prodigality and misconduct." - Adam Smith
"Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste." - Baltasar Gracián
"Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating but insatiable lust of accumulation." - Charles Caleb Colton
"Gambling is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality." - Charles Caleb Colton
"The injury of prodigality leads to this, that he that will not economize will have to agonize." - Confucius, aka Kong Qiu, Zhongni, K'ung Fu-tzu or Kong Fuzi NULL
"The fantastically wasteful prodigality of human tongues, the Babel enigman, points to a vital multiplication of mortal liberties. Each language speaks the world in its own ways. Each edifies worlds and counter-worlds in its own mode. The polyglot is a freer man." - George Steiner, fully Francis George Steiner
"The pious mind distinguishes between what is written with reference to the deity and with reference to the flesh, and thus avoids sacrilege." - Saint Ambrose, born Aurelius Ambrosius NULL
"The pious mind distinguishes between what is written with reference to the deity and with reference to the flesh, and thus avoids sacrilege." - Ambrose, aka Saint Ambrose, fully Aurelius Ambrosius NULL