Quote by Henry Miller
The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And pe

The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise, neither can they remain young and vigorous. In order to transmute energy to higher and more subtle levels one must first conserve it. – Henry Miller

Other quotes by Henry Miller

Topographically the country is magnificent — and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak. – Henry Miller

Category:
Land
Read Quote

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. – Henry Miller

Category:
Life
Read Quote

The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens. – Henry Miller

Category:
legal
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Excess
category

I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours. – Bernard Berenson

Category:
Excess

The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom. – William Blake

Category:
Excess

I hold this as a rule of life: Too much of anything is bad. – Terence

Category:
Excess

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity. – Thomas Love Peacock

Category:
Excess

Random Quotes

There are only two forces that unite men – fear and interest. – Napoleon Bonaparte

Category:
Fear

If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And why? So you could lie around the pool, drink margaritas and send money to your parents. So thats what I did. – Steve Guttenberg

Category:
teacher

Never underestimate the power of temptation to disarm your better senses. Throughout the ages good people surrendered their honor for the empty promise that wealth or power would bring fulfillment and their dignity, good name and self-esteem for the passing pleasures of sex and drugs. – Michael Josephson

Category:
Temptation

Indeed I regard the enduring support which I have received over the years from all sections of the community in Ballymena as being more than sufficient recognition for any success which I may have achieved as an actor. – Liam Neeson

Category:
Success