Profligacy Quotes

“This is a spendthrift economy; though nothing is lost, all is spent.”
― Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

“Whenever one feels like saying “the money that billionaire spent on his fleet of yachts could have been used better by the "public sector”“, one should ask oneself when was the last time one heard of a billionaire buying an army of tanks and a set of nuclear weapons.”
― Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski, The Pith of Life: Aphorisms in Honor of Liberty

“Beauty is scandalous sir! It takes away a man's reason and cedes him unreasonable fervor. For you see sir! A man profligate as me; has found in this destitution
that a reasonable man is more likely to lead a
content life. That's the best a man can be sir, content.
Especially an eternally dejected man, such as myself.
Who has lost his ability to be pleased.”
― Teufel Damon

“Kynes passed an unreadable glance across Bewt, said: 'It is said in the desert that possession of water in great amount can inflict a man with fatal carelessness.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune