For those dependent on their gardens for fresh food, it was often a case of feast or famine. . . (One settler wrote), "Strawberries were now so plentiful that. . . I made 287 lbs of jam. . . "
When I write, I love finding connections between ideas. When the connections are plentiful and strong, then I know it's a pretty good subject to write about.
Roland could not understand why anyone would want cocaine or any other illegal drug, for that matter, in a world where such a powerful one as sugar was so plentiful and cheap.
The beautiful is never plentiful.
Reason is not like the goods sold in the market places--the more plentiful they are, the less they are worth. Reason's worth waxes with her abundance. But were she sold in the market, it is only the wise man who would understand her true value.
For many of us, clean water is so plentiful and readily available that we rarely, if ever, pause to consider what life would be like without it.
Boredom is actually the most plentiful substance in the universe.
Scientists believe that the universe is made of hydrogen because they claim it's the most plentiful ingredient. I claim that the most plentiful ingredient is stupidity.
This could be our revolution: to love what is plentiful as much as what's scarce.
Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride on air. You have only to reach out and snatch one.
They have a plentiful lack of wit.
The problem isn't that the green jobs aren't sexy enough. It's that they're not plentiful enough. A young person looking for a job isn't looking just for a sexy job, they're looking for any job.
A "just war" - if there could be such a thing - would not require conscription. Volunteers would be plentiful.
The world is plentiful with honey, but only the humble bee can collect it.
None of us offers resistance when he is seized, or avenges himself for your unjust violence, although our people are numerous and plentiful. . . it is not lawful for us to hate, and so we please God more when we render no requital for injury. . . we repay your hatred with kindness.
When money was plentiful, I was the first one who told you to stack it. Live your life with it. Now that money slowed up, I'ma be the one telling you to save it like they ain't gon' make it no more.
Where resources are plentiful (i. e. no constraints), you will find very little creativity. Where resources are scarce (i. e. many constraints), you will find an abundance of creativity.
Impertinent wits are a kind of insect which are in everybody's way and plentiful in all countries.
Words are plentiful; deeds are precious.
. . . actors of the first water are not more plentiful than playwrights of genius.
