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Quotes About Plenty

You have abundance all around you.
~ Lynn A. Robinson
If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!
~ Mae West
We now face the danger, which in the past has been the most destructive to thehumans: Success, plenty, comfort and ever-increasing leisure. No dynamic peoplehas ever survived these dangers.
~ John Steinbeck
The frantic summer fishermen who pay a price and glut the decks with fish in the afternoon wonder vaguely what to do with them, sacks and baskets and mountains of porgies and blows and blackfish, sea robins, and even slender dogfish, all to be torn up greedily, to die, and to be thrown back for the waiting gulls. The gulls swarm and wait, knowing the summer fisherman will sicken of their plenty. Who wants to clean and scale a sack of fish? It's harder to give away fish than it is to catch them.
~ John Steinbeck
Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Poverty with security is better than plenty in the midst of fear and uncertainty.
~ Aesop
How could you fear a dearth? Have not mankind tho' slain by millions, millions left behind?
~ Joel Barlow
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Enough is as good as a feast.
~ John Heywood
Oh, Liberty! thou goddess heavenly bright! Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight! Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign, And smiling plenty leads thy wanton train.
~ Joseph Addison
The word "enough" has no relevance for us.
~ Michael L. Brown
If you perceive the universe as being a universe of abundance, then it will be. If you think of the universe as one of scarcity, then it will be...I always thought that there was enough of everything to go around - that there are enough ideas in the universe and enough nourishment.
~ Milton Glaser
Extra' was a very American word. Americans seemed to have extras of everything.
~ Unknown
So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and can be used also in cases where there is plenty of individuality and history.
~ Murray Gell-Mann
be spared. There would be an extravagant smorgasbord
~ Naomi Ragen
Morality, he often argued, is a purely human invention only to be indulged in times of plenty.
~ Neal Asher
From his abundance we have all received one gracious blessing after another.
~ Unknown
Scientists are mistaken if they think that because the society that surrounds them revels in the plenty that science bestows, it has developed a frame of mind that reflects the scientific ethos. More ancient tendencies are in play in the collective imagination.
~ Unknown
Lover of pleasure without plenty is a lover of poverty.
~ Unknown
There is more than enough of anything for anybody in the hole entire universe
~ Unknown
excuses. There was plenty of room for magic in any race, too, for
~ Paula McLain
but seven years of famine will follow them. Then all the abundance in the land of Egypt will be forgotten, and the famine will devastate the land.
~ Genesis 41:30
In the midst of his plenty, he will be distressed; the full force of misery will come upon him.
~ Job 20:22
You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your paths overflow with plenty.
~ Psalm 65:11