plenty quotes

Pees maketh plente; Plente maketh pride; Pride make plee; Plee maketh povert; Povert maketh pees. Peace makes plenty; Plenty makes pride; Pride makes lawsuits; Lawsuits make poverty; Poverty makes peace.

-Anonymous
c.1470  Untitled lyric.

I was na fou, but just had plenty.

- Robert Burns
  'Death and Doctor Hornbook.  A  True Story', stanza 3.

Where Plenty smilesalas! she smiles for few, And those who taste not, yet behold her store, Are as the slaves that dig the golden ore, The wealth around them makes them doubly poor.

- George Crabbe
  The Village, bk.1, l.136^9.

'Tissufficienttosay, according totheproverb, that hereis God's plenty.

-John Dryden
  Of the Canterbury  Tales. Fables  Ancient and Modern, preface,'In Praise of Chaucer'.

Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain.

- Oliver Goldsmith
  The Deserted Village, l.1^2.

Inopem me copia fecit. Plenty has made me poor.

-Ovid full name Publius OvidiusNaso   4317
Metamorphoses, bk.3, l.466.