A young prodigal, an old mumper. [ Proverb ]

A parsimony of words prodigal of sense. [ Disraeli ]

Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease. [ John Dryden ]

You may be more prodigal of time than of money. [ Mme. Necker ]

The prodigal robes the heir, the miser himself. [ Proverb ]

Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection. [ Lamartine ]

The prodigal robs his heir, the miser robs himself. [ La Bruyère ]

Young prodigal in a coach will be old beggar bare-foot. [ Proverb ]

As prodigal of all dear grace as Nature was in making graces dear. [ Shakespeare ]

When I say, Be not a miser, I do not bid you become a worthless prodigal. [ Horace ]

Free-livers on a small scale, who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea. [ Washington Irving ]

Those that dare lose a day are dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, desperate. [ Bishop Hall ]

Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things. [ Colton ]

He that spends to his proportion is as brave as a prince, and a prince exceeding that is a prodigal. [ Proverb ]

Thou mayst be more prodigal of praise when thou writest a letter than when thou speakest in presence. [ Fuller ]

Love never reasons, but profusely gives--gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, and trembles then lest it has done too little. [ Hannah More ]

Men of the greatest genius are not always the most prodigal of their encomiums. But then it is when their range of power is confined, and they have in fact little perception, except of their own particular kind of excellence. [ Hazlitt ]

Business in a certain sort of men is a mark of understanding, and they are honored for it. Their souls seek repose in agitation, as children do by being rocked in a cradle. They may pronounce themselves as serviceable to their friends as troublesome to themselves. No one distributes his money to others, but every one therein distributes his time and his life. There is nothing of which we are so prodigal as of those two things, of which to be thrifty would be both commendable and useful. [ Montaigne ]