Top 749 Spare Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Fear was given to man as a cautionary device to spare him pain; it is not mean to be cultivated and abused.

Those were the great days when plenty of amateurs could spare time for cricket.

Visions of glory, spare my aching sight! Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul!

I have a passion for animals and spend a lot of my spare time working with various organizations here in Toronto.

The last thing family and friends want is for you to spend money on them that you don't have or that you can't really spare.

I don't own a jet, but I rent jets in my spare time. That's the quickest and most comfortable.

In my spare time, I volunteer at my daughters' schools so I can stay involved with the activities and parent/teacher community.

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.

When I was 9 or 10 years old it wasn't the thing to be seen doing - reading a book in your spare time.

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks.

I want to tell the law and order machinery not to spare anyone who indulges in unlawful activities.

My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal.

As a professional journalist, I have always been fascinated by people who appear to have even more spare time than I do.

Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good.

In my spare time, I paint, garden, hike and enjoy massages for my weary writer's back.

And join with thee calm Peace and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet.

I think we too often go soft in trying to spare people the agony of confronting reality.

Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation-from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun.

Yeah, I paint in my spare time, just to relax myself and wind down a bit.

I'm a serial scroller, and whenever I have a minute to spare, you'll find me on my phone scrolling through Instagram.

I work a lot with blind people in my spare time outside of Unilever, and I count my blessings every day.

I do not know what we should do without the pulpit. We could better spare the sun-the moon, anyway.

You never know when you might come home and find Mam sitting by the fire chatting with a woman and a child, strangers. Always a woman and child. Mam finds them wandering the streets and if they ask, Could you spare a few pennies, miss? her heart breaks. She never has money so she invites them home for tea and a bit of fried bread and if it's a bad night she'll let them sleep by the fire on a pile of rags in the corner. The bread she gives them always means less for us and if we complain she says there are always people worse off and we can surely spare a little from what we have.

My wish is that we design the future of learning. We don't want to be spare parts for a great human computer.

As soon as I had a guitar I loved it, and I started playing in every spare moment.

I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.

My verse has brought me no roubles to spare: no craftsmen have made mahogany chairs for my house.

I don't spend and save whenever I have spare cash. I dislike people who boast about money.

Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich.

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.

I spend a lot of my spare time with my family. My sisters, parents, and in-laws all live nearby.

As footballers, we have time on our hands. Yes, we work very hard but we also have spare afternoons.

Playing video games is something I enjoy in my spare time. I'm a gamer, always have been.

The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground.

I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.

Alec Wilkinson is a spare, clear, and lucid writer who works in stylistic simplicity with material that is not simple at all.

I like big, open, spare landscapes. There's lots of room. Nobody bothers you... I feel as if I can think there.

Every fool becomes a philosopher after ten days of rain, so I spare you the inside view of my heart.

You are right that I don't have a lot of spare time because I love to stay busy and keep my calendar full.

Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen.

An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account.

When you're going through an emotional experience and you're focussed completely on what's happening, you can't even spare any attention that the camera's there.

I'm thinking of taking a window cleaner's job to fill the spare hour in the evening.

The market is perfectly well supplied at the moment but spare capacity is very limited.

It makes me bounce out of boxing, I put all my spare time into being a dad.

He gave Marcie a spare to the Jeep—I should park this thing in the ocean, twenty feet under.

Woodman, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now.

The tendency in the media is to portray everyone in the film industry as sex-starved creatures. Please spare us.

Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.

There are offers, but I would sign the dotted line only when a project excites me enough to spare time for it.

It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.

If I had a prayer, it would be this: "God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen."

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.

David Bergen is a master of taut, spare prose that's both erotic and hypnotic. . . .

I never got to play as a child. All my spare time was spent working on my family's smallholding.

...the deepest secrets about ourselves that we, in the ultimate act of humanity, will spare those we truly love.

It is Proust's courtesy to spare the reader the embarrassment of believing himself cleverer than the author.

You might be a redneck if you entire family has ever sat around waiting for a call from the governor to spare a loved one.