PRODIGALITY

Related Subjects: Excess, Extravagance, Waste

1. The younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.—Bible, Luke 15:13
   

2. Squandering wealth was his peculiar art;
   Nothing went unrewarded but desert,
   Beggar'd by fools, whom still he found too late;
   He had his jest, and they had his estate.—DRYDEN, Absalom & Achitophel
   

3. A princely mind will undo a private family.—LORD HALIFAX, Works
   

4. Free livers on a small scale; who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea.—WASHINGTON IRVING, The Stout Gentleman
   

5. On parchment wings his acres take their flight.—SOAME JENYNS, The Modern Fine Gentleman
   

6. We commonly say of a prodigal man that he is no man's foe but his own.—BISHOP KING, Lecture on Jonah
   

7. The prodigal robs his heir, the miser himself.—Proverb
   

8. Shall I keep your hogs and eat husks with them? What prodigal portion have I spent, that I should come to such penury?—SHAKESPEARE, As You Like It
   

9. Prodigals lately come from swine-keeping.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV
   

10. How like the prodigal doth she return
    With over-weather'd ribs!—SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice
    

11. You must consider that a prodigal course
    Is like the sun's; but not, like his, recoverable.—SHAKESPEARE, Timon of Athens
    

12. I have received my proportion, like the prodigious son.—SHAKESPEARE, The Two Gentlemen of Verona