Top 101 Prodigal Quotes & Sayings

[The Return of the Prodigal book] came out of my emotional and spiritual journey during the four months I was gone from Daybreak because of depression.

Mankind are always found prodigal both of blood and treasure in the maintenance of public justice.

The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle.

Every reformation must have its victims. You can’t expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal’s return.

Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal.

Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease.

Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness.

The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration.

We deny that it is fun to be saving. It is fun to be prodigal. Go to the butterfly, thou parsimonious sluggard; consider her ways and get wise.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives, Gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, And trembles then, lest it has done too little.

Prodigal sons like Barack Obama, Kanye West, and Michael Jordan only come back to Chicago to sell their homes.

O! what a prodigal have I been of that most valuable of all possessions Time!

There's just no accounting for happiness, or the way it turns up like a prodigal who comes back to the dust at your feet having squandered a fortune far away.

The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.

Search out the wisdom of nature, there is depth in all her doings; she seemeth prodigal of power, yet her rules are the maxims of frugality.

I do know when the blood burns, how prodigal the soul lends the tongue vows.

My writing has developed drastically . The Return of the Prodigal Son is the most important thing I've done, and my most mature book.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

I do not overlook the fact that the appearance of these new, free nations in the European political community not only celebrates the return of the prodigal son but also creates new sources of friction here and there

The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.

Those that dare lose a day, ate dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, are desperate.

I did 'Prodigal Son' at Manhattan Theatre Club.

Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection.

You may be more prodigal of time than of money.

We all know the story of the prodigal son. Confident he knows what is best for him, he recklessly squanders his inheritance. The Occupy Wall Streeters are just that, the prodigal protesters.

I don't see coming to Kerala as a commercial exercise; it's a human venture. Every film I make, I come here. I am the prodigal son.

The severe household has no fierce slaves, while it is the affectionate mother who has the prodigal son.

Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.

I do not overlook the fact that the appearance of these new, free nations in the European political community not only celebrates the return of the prodigal son but also creates new sources of friction here and there.

I'm a prodigal son. The black sheep of a white flock. I shall die on the gallows.

When you keep the porch light on for the prodigal child, you do what God does every single moment.

The first breath of autumn was in the air, a prodigal feeling, a feeling of wanting, taking, and keeping before it is too late.

If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech.

To be a Prodigal's favourite,-then, worse truth, A Miser's pensioner,-behold our lot!

But by faith you look in the mirror and see a robed prodigal bearing the ring of grace on your finger and the kiss of your Father on your face.

Sight is a slick and overbearing autocrat, trumpeting its prodigal knowledge and perceptions so forcefully that it drowns out the other, subtler senses.

I never understood redemption when I was young. Even before I was an atheist, I always thought with the prodigal son, "well, why's he getting the special treatment?"

Men of the greatest genius are not always the most prodigal of their encomiums. But then it is when their range of power is confined, and they have in fact little perception, except of their own particular kind of excellence.

I can't remember what episode it is but there's an episode of Prodigal Son' where I wake up in my underwear and, you can see, I can put the beef on!

'Prodigal Son' actually came along a lot quicker than I was expecting my next job to come. I was prepared to take a while off, but then it was such a good opportunity that I couldn't turn it down.

If the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself.

We Americans tend to be a prodigal lot. We are as careless with our personal resources as we are with the resources of nature, squandering both as if there were no end to the gifts of earth and sea and sky.

A parsimony of words prodigal of sense.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous.

The great man is sparing in words but prodigal in deeds.

Mozart, prodigal heaven gave thee everything, grace and strength, abundance and moderation, perfect equilibrium.

We have been the most prodigal of people with land, and for years we wasted it with impunity. There was so much of it, and no matter how we fouled it, there was always more over the next hill, or so it seemed.

Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind.

When I caution you against becoming a miser, I do not therefore advise you to become a prodigal or a spendthrift.

There is no tongue that flatters like a lover's; and yet, in the exaggeration of his feelings, flattery seems to him commonplace. Strange and prodigal exuberance, which soon exhausts itself by flowing!

And keep you in the rear of your affection, Out of the shot and danger of desire, The chariest maid is prodigal enough If she unmasks her beauty to the moon.

One wastes so much time, one is so prodigal of life, at twenty! Our days of winter count for double. That is the compensation of the old.

One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.

If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.

To reclaim the prodigal is well, but to save him from ever being a prodigal is better.

Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.

Those are not the tears of repentance!... Self-loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks a step in the way home, and in the father's arms the prodigal forgets the self he abominates.

I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found.

For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.