Quotes About Sparing

Occam's Razor' (so-called because the principle encourages one to cut out unnecessary complications from theory) is ultimately aesthetic: why postulate two things when one will do? Or as Occam is said to have put it, 'It is vain to do with more what can be done with fewer'.

I've just always been really - we'll call it tight-pocketed.

It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.

Find a judo solution, one that delivers maximum efficiency with minimum effort.

When a chivalrous man makes an oath, he is faithful to it, and when he attains power, he spares his enemy.

Greater than atomic power is the power of love. Alas, we use it so sparingly!

Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.

But first consider how much more sparing and patient of hardship the poor are than we.

The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid it; and it must be avoided generally by the science of sparing.

He had a nice smile. Seeing it, I felt like I'd won a prize, because he was so sparing with them.

I'm quite famously frugal.

Less is more only when more is too much.

Wi?cej za pomoc? mniej.

Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.

Dear killer, spare not they sweet-cruel shot: A kind of grace it is to slay with speed. - From Astrophel and Stella

Happy in love, Adam would have spared us History.

The rescue of Aethra and the sparing of Antenor - can be registered as the only lights of clemency an honour that shone during that night of unnameable atrocities

Indeed, madam, your ladyship is very sparing of your tea: I protest, the last I took was no more than water bewitch'd.

Hollywood could use less instead of more of everything.

I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.

It is vain to do with more what can be done with fewer.

Then the Lord became jealous for His land and spared His people. Joel 2:18

No, the Great Disaster had shown no predilection toward sparing the nice people, and the survivors had not been rendered pleasanter as the result of the ordeal through which they had passed.

Indeed, madam, your ladyship is very sparing of your tea: I protest, the last I took was no more than water bewitch'd.