“ Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world. ”
- Cesare Pavese- Copy
- 3.6K
“ If time be of all things most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough always proves little enough. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
- 709
“ Where there is no extravagance there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries. ”
- John L. Motley- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none. ”
- Doug Larson- Copy
- 985
“ All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren't respectable live beyond other peoples. A few gifted individuals manage to do both. ”
- Hector Hugh Munro- Copy
- 624
“ We're trying redefine Virginia Beach more as a luxury destination. ”
- Richard Brooks- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities. ”
- Hannah More- Copy
- 115
“ Framed in the prodigality of nature. - King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 2. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2.1K
“ The noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure. ”
- Edward Gibbon- Copy
- 964
“ I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury. ”
- Twyla Tharp- Copy
- 2.6K
“ The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash, but then the country picked itself up again, and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it. ”
- Norman Rockwell- Copy
- 3.7K
“ I get so tired listening to, 'One million dollars here. One million dollars there.' It's so petty. ”
- Imelda Marcos- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 2.8K
“ My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends — It gives a lovely light! ”
- Edna St. Vincent Millay- Copy
- 672
“ I was born ostentatious. They will list my name in the dictionary someday. They will use 'Imeldific' to mean ostentatious extravagance. ”
- Imelda Marcos- Copy
- 91
“ As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer. When so much general productive exertion is the consequence of luxury, the nation does not care though there are debtors; nay, they would not care though their creditors were there too. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Oh, Brethren, it is sickening work to think of your cushioned seats, your chants, your anthems, your choirs, your organs, your gowns, and your bands, and I know not what besides, all made to be instruments of religious luxury, if not of pious dissipation, while ye need far more to be stirred up and incited to holy ardor for the propagation of the truth as it is in Jesus. ”
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon- Copy
- 2.5K
“ We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand. ”
- Jennie Jerome Churchill- Copy
- 2.6K
“ The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor. ”
- William Feather- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Jargon allows us to camouflage intellectual poverty with verbal extravagance. ”
- David Pratt- Copy
- 65
“ Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances. Command by obeying. ”
- Motto- Copy
- 1.9K
“ The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance. ”
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne- Copy
- 1.1K
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