It is plenty
That makes you dainty. [ Proverb ]
And plenty makes us poor. [ Dryden ]
Whose plenty made him poor. [ Spenser ]
Plenty of words when the cause is lost. [ Italian Proverb ]
In times of prosperity friends will be plenty,
In times of adversity not one in twenty. [ Proverb ]
Thus each extreme to equal danger tends,
Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends. [ Cowley ]
The learned is happy nature to explore,
The fool is happy that he knows no more;
The rich is happy in the plenty given.
The poor contents him with the care of Heaven. [ Pope ]
Plenty has made me poor; wealth makes wit waver. [ Ovid ]
It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends. [ Thackeray ]
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;
Eased of her load, subjection grows more light
And poverty looks cheerful in the sight;
Thou makest the gloomy face of nature gay,
Giv'st beauty to the sun, and pleasure to the day. [ Addison ]
Twas a public feast and public day -
Quite full, right dull, guests hot, and dishes cold,
Great plenty, much formality, small cheer.
And everybody out of their own sphere. [ Byron ]
It is a fair degree of plenty to have what is necessary. [ Proverb ]
Tell me why the ant midst summer's plenty thinks of winter's want. [ Prior ]
Plenty and peace breed cowards; hardness ever of hardiness is mother. [ William Shakespeare ]
Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, and supped with Infamy. [ Benjamin Franklin ]
Beauties without fortunes have sweethearts plenty, but husbands none at all. [ Proverb ]
There are plenty of nobodies in the world; we stumble over them at every step. [ T. Dwight, Jr ]
A taste which plenty does deprave loathes lawful goods, and lawless ill does crave. [ Dryden ]
The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water and yet thirsty. [ Rev. T. Adams ]
A friend gilds the scene of life with sunshine, seasons the cup of plenty, assuages fear, quickens hope, and animates pleasure. [ T. L. O'Beirne ]
Wit, like hunger, will be with great difficulty restrained from falling on vice and ignorance, where there is great plenty and variety of food. [ Fielding ]
That plenty should produce either Covetousness or prodigality is a perversion of providence; and yet the generality of men are the worse for their riches. [ William Penn ]
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber if he has common-sense on the ground-floor. But if a man has not got plenty of good common-sense, the more science he has the worse for his patient. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]
With a clear sky, a bright sun, and a gentle breeze, you have friends in plenty; but let fortune frown, and the firmament be overcast, and then your friends will prove like the strings of the lute, of which you tighten ten before you find one that will bear the stretch and keep the pitch. [ Gotthold ]
There is a hand that has no heart in it, there is a claw or paw, a flipper or fin, a bit of wet cloth to take hold of, a piece of unbaked dough on the cook's trencher, a cold clammy thing we recoil from, or greedy clutch with the heat of sin, which we drop as a burning coal. What a scale from the talon to the horn of plenty, is this human palmleaf! Sometimes it is what a knifeshaped, thin-bladed tool we dare not grasp, or like a poisonous thing we shake off, or unclean member, which, white as it may look, we feel polluted by! [ C. A. Bartol ]