Quotes About Abundance

Ne zaman Ploutos eskisi gibi görür oldu ondan beri kimse biz tanr?lara ne buhur, ne defne, ne arpa ekmeÄŸi, ne kurban, ne baÅŸka bir ÅŸey takdim eder oldu.

And it will often happen that a man with wealth in the form of coined money will not have enough to eat; and what a ridiculous kind of wealth is that which even in abundance will not save you from dying with hunger!

It is not easy for a generous person to grow rich, since he is ready to spend, not to take or keep, and honors wealth for the sake of giving, not for itself. Indeed, that is why fortune is denounced, because those who most deserve to grow rich actually do so least.

Money is far commoner than time. When one reflects, one perceives that money is just about the commonest thing there is.

Sommige mensen lijden omdat ze niet hoeven te leven. Ze hebben alles. Hun natje, hun droogje, een dak boven het hoofd. Maar ze hoeven niet te leven, want ze hebben alles. Als ze een boek waren geweest, zou een recensent vast schrijven: 'Aardig, maar de noodzaak ontbreekt'.

If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns.

The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play

Crime had practically vanished. It had become unnecessary and impossible. When no one lacks anything there is no point in stealing.

Ignorance, disease, poverty, and fear had virtually ceased to exist.

When no one lacks anything, there is no point in stealing.

Everything was so cheap that the necessities of life were free, provided as a public service by the community, as roads, water, street lighting, and drainage had once been. A man could travel anywhere he pleased, eat whatever food he fancied—without handing over any money. He had earned the right to do this by being a productive member of the community.

Üretim büyük ölçüde otomatikleÅŸmiÅŸti. Robotlar?n iÅŸlettiÄŸi fabrikalar ard? arkas? kesilmeyen tüketim mallar? üretiyordu; böylece yaÅŸam için gereken her ÅŸey neredeyse bedava olmuÅŸtu. Ä°nsanlar art?k istedikleri lükslere sahip olabilmek için çal???yordu. Ya da hiç çal??m?yordu.

Shall the world, then, be overrun by oysters?

I was often, later on, to act out with Giaconda a circumspection I did not feel: her abundance made others reticent; her openness evoked discretion.

All the Blackwood women had taken the food that came from the ground and preserved it, and the deeply colored rows of jellies and pickles and bottled vegetables and fruit, maroon and amber and dark rich green, stood side by side in our cellar and would stand there forever, a poem by the Blackwood women.

I will go on my horse and bring you cinnamon and thyme, emeralds and clove, cloth of gold and cabbages. And rhubarb.

I dined upon a bird, and radishes from the garden, and homemade plum jam.

we eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow an then we eat it.

And what's more fun than a market full of melons? Wherever you look, there's a honeydew or a watermelon

The sheer size too, the excessive abundance, scale, and exaggeration of dreams could be an infantile characteristic. The most ardent wish of children is to grow up and get as big a share of everything as the grown-ups; they are hard to satisfy; do not know the meaning of 'enough.

although there are plenty of numbers whose divisors add up to one less than the number itself, that is to say only slightly defective, there appear to be no numbers that are slightly excessive.

The Atlantic is the classic ocean of our imaginings, an industrial ocean of cold and iron and salt, a purposeful ocean of sea-lanes and docksides and fisheries, an ocean alive with squadrons of steadily moving ships above, with unimaginable volumes of mysterious marine abundance below.

a abundância de lazer nos empobrece.

Holy Men! Holy Cabbages! Holy Bean Pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat?