Insufficiency Quotes

One's too many, and a hundred's not enough.

When a poor man has bread, he has no salt, and when he has salt, he has no bread. If he has some seasoning he has no meat. If he has some meat, he has no seasoning.

No one ever has the resources they need.

A liberal is someone who throws a drowning man 50 feet from the shore a 30 foot rope and says, "I've met you more than halfway.

I'm still missing that little something.

Where there is too much, something is missing.

Heaven be their resource who have no other but the charity of the world, the stock of which, I fear, is no way sufficient for the many great claims which are hourly made upon it.

It is hard to make an empty sack stand upright.

You're never as ready as you think you are. You're never as ready as you need to be.

Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough.

One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich.

I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living.

Too many pigs; two few teats.

If you can't beat them or join them, then do something weird. No matter how much the passengers eat, the weight of the plane stays the same. Do you sometimes feel that you are necessary but not sufficient?

to live means to lack something at every moment

Words can't say this. The one word love means too little for what it is. It means everything and that is still not enough.

Obviously, Miss Craig, not enough.

If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been a proof that you were not.

It's not enough to be numbered with the grains of sand on the beach and the stars in the sky.

The only word for goodness is goodness, and it is not enough.

Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.

You know I love you right?” “I know,” he breathed, his arm tightening automatically around my waist. “You know how much I wish it was enough.

I don't like the feeling of 'I didn't do enough.'

You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.

One could do with a longer year - so much to do, so little done, alas.