Top 749 Spare Quotes & Sayings

Spare the person but lash the vice.

I am afraid of getting older … I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a day—spare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote. I want to be free…. I want, I want to think, to be omniscient…. I think I would like to call myself ‘The girl who wanted to be God.

People ask me what I do in my spare time, and I look at them blankly, truly believing that I don't even have spare time, and if I did, I'd probably use it for something mundane, like chipping away at the mound of laundry rising to dangerous proportions in the back room.

I can't spare this man, he fights!

Spare me therefore, your good intentions, your inner sensitivities, your unarticulated and unexpressed love. And spare me also these tedious psycho-historians which, by exposing the goodness inside the bad man, and the evil in the good-invariably establish a vulgar and perverse egalitarianism, as if the arrangement of what is outside and what inside makes no moral difference.

A big, studly football jock like me? I got plenty of blood to spare. For you, I have anything to spare.

... me He now delights to spare.

A lady once offered me a mat, but as I had no room to spare within the house, nor time to spare within or without to shake it, I declined it, preferring to wipe my feet on the sod before my door. It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

The pow'r that I have on you is to spare you; The malice towards you to forgive you.

Spare the soul that feels a deadly wound.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

I arrange flowers in my spare time. Well, when I have spare time, that is.

As a footballer, there is so much spare time.

Twins are so practical. It's always nice to have a spare.

Visions of glory, spare my aching sight.

Use sin as it will use you; spare it not, for it will not spare you; it is your murderer, and the murderer of the world: use it, therefore, as a murderer should be used. Kill it before it kills you.

To spare the guilty is to injure the innocent.

Spare no expense on the stuff that matters.

Vice president: A spare tire on the automobile of government.

So break me to small parts, let go in small doses, but spare some for spare parts.

Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.

My wife's so dumb, she got a nail in the spare!!

Investors have few spare tires left. Think of the image of a car on a bumpy road to an uncertain destination that has already used up its spare tire. The cash reserves of people have been eaten up by the recent market volatility.

Spare time is like spare change. It's hard to quantify, the definition of that phrase. What do I do when I'm not onstage singing, or sleeping, with or without someone else? I watch movies.

Why didn't I buy a new phone earlier? Why don't I always walk around with a spare phone? It should be the law, like having a spare tire.

O leave this barren spot to me! Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree.

Spare no expense to save money on this one.

He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.

In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.

Spare no expense to make everything as economical as possible.

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

Better spare to have of thine own, then aske of other men. [Better spare to have of thine own than ask of other men.]

Every second I have spare, I'm with my kids.

There's only one earth. And there's no spare.

Whosoever you are who introduce new doctrines, I beseech you to spare the ears of Romans! Spare that faith which was commended by the voice of an Apostle. Why should you attempt to teach us, at the end of hundreds of years, that which we never heard before? Why bring forward what Peter and Paul did not will to make known? Until this day, the world was Christian without your doctrine. Thus, I hold as an old man onto that faith wherein I was regenerated as a boy.

When I do have spare time to write, I'm tempted to spend it napping.

Spare feast! a radish and an egg.

It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

I'm just a hoofer with a spare set of tails.

Kill the king but spare the man.

I Xeroxed my watch. Now I have time to spare.

I don't have time to spare for a daily soap; it needs commitment.

God has infinite attention to spare for each one of us.

Trade is nothing else but a Commutation of Superfluities; for instance: I give mine, what I can spare, for somewhat of yours, which I want, and you can spare.

When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.

Slippery slope. I carry a spare shirt, pretty soon I'm carrying spare pants. Then I'd need a suitcase. Next thing I know, I've got a house and a car and a savings plan and I'm filling out all kinds of forms.

Spare all I have, and take my life.

Spare when young, and spend when old.

You don't have any days to spare if you want to improve!

My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care of.

In my spare time, I smoke acres of weed.

There's time enough, but none to spare.

I do cagefight commentary in my spare time.

I don't have spare time.

Ladies with curly hair / Have time to spare.

The Great Commission will not be fulfilled with our spare time or spare money.

Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.

I started writing stories in my spare time.

I had to do things to myself on the page that had been done to me in real life. I had to try and drown myself in the bath. You have to do that. And the impulse is to rescue yourself and to spare the reader, but I can't rescue myself. And why should I spare the reader when nobody spared me? It's telling people what happened.

A short reign does not spare the masses.