Pray thee spare thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.

We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

If we want to truly regain the public's trust we can provide greater accountability and transparency with a simple step. Let's start by communicating to our constituents about the votes we take.

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.

There's time enough but none to spare.

The keys to brand success are self-definition transparency authenticity and accountability.

I hope to devote all of my spare time which ordinarily would go to research my summers and every ounce of strength I can muster to further the project.

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.

It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence to avoid wasting time and labour and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients.

By giving people the power to share we're making the world more transparent.

It's really very simple Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.

We remain at peace with all nations and no efforts on my part consistent with the preservation of our rights and the honor of the country shall be spared to maintain a position so consonant to our institutions.

Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self and that I could still sustain my belief in privacy and be authentic and transparent at the same time. It was a pretty revelatory moment and there's been a liberating force that's come from it.

Spare no expense to save money on this one.

Time is like money the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.

In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

My hope is that we will turn Greece into maybe the most transparent country in the world with everything on the web.

But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.

In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency which we hope will now apply.

It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart.

Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages home runs errors ERAs win/loss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way.

Spare a thought for the poor introverts among us. In a world of party animals and glad-handers they're the ones who stand by the punch bowl. In a world of mixers and pub crawls they prefer to stay home with a book. Everywhere around them cell phones ring and e-mails chime and they just want a little quiet.