Extravagance Quotes · Page 2

Extravagant love is never wasted.

— Bob Goff

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

— Michel de Montaigne

“I don't consider elegance and extravagance to be the same element.”

— Karah Khalia

An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.

— Bernard Williams

The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense corrupts the purest souls.

— Francois Fenelon

I've always led a pretty simple life, with few extravagances. The money in tennis never drove me.

— Pete Sampras

If extravagance were a fault, it would not have a place in the festivals of the gods.

— Aristippus

“Toa msaada katika jamii iliyosaidia kukulea ulipokuwa mdogo.”

— Enock Maregesi

I would prefer a thousand mistakes in extravagance of love to any paralysis in wariness of fear.

— Gerald May

It may be affirmed, without extravagance, that the free institutions we enjoy, have developed the powers, and improved the condition, of our…

— Abraham Lincoln

In the material world, where everything is valued, when you commit yourself to God, beauty and love, it can be mistaken for…

— Imelda Marcos

We can never put ourselves in the shoes of children; we cannot fathom their thoughts, we lend them ours; and always following…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.

— Samuel Johnson

No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally,…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

We hold the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty is far superior to that of supplying the…

— Thomas Paine

He that spends a Groat a day idly, spends idly above 6 l. a year, which is the Price of using 100 l.

— Benjamin Franklin

The things we do at Christmas are touched with a certain extravagance, as beautiful, in some of its aspects, as the extravagance…

— Robert Collyer

We must learn that competence is better than extravagance, that worth is better than wealth, that the golden calf we have worshiped…

— C. A. Bartol

Nature is, above all, profligate. Don't believe them when they tell you how economical and thrifty nature is, whose leaves return to…

— Annie Dillard

Some have been ensnared in the net of excessive debt. The net of interest holds them fast, requiring them to sell their…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

“We sing lyrical excess, exacerbated expressionism, imponed objectivity, inventiveness, meta-baroque, extravaganza, super metaphor, sublimity, strident, exposure, super-pone, noise, super-objectivity, zillionism, fragmentation and…

— Lepota L. Cosmo

The Christians say, that among the ancient Jews, if you committed a crime you had to kill a sheep. Now they say…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

My Christian Louboutins are also one of the secrets to my not-for-profit success. Here's why - and it's something that everyone who…

— Nancy Lublin

“Heri kuishi kama maskini mwenye pesa nyingi kuliko tajiri mwenye mifuko iliyotoboka, kuliko kusema mbele za watu kwamba pesa haijakupa furaha. Wengi…

— Enock Maregesi

When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common…

— Charles Caleb Colton

An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms…

— Anonymous

The best results in the operation of a government wherein every citizen has a share largely depend upon a proper limitation of…

— Grover Cleveland

If the art of gardening is at last to turn back from her extravagances and rest with her other sisters, it is,…

— Friedrich Schiller

When I compare life to a dream I do not mean to denigrate it as some sort of meaningless fantasy. Life is…

— Timothy Freke

If love is the soul of Christian existence, it must be at the heart of every other Christian virtue. Thus, for example,…

— Richard Rohr

What do you see when you see me?' She asked him, burying her own face in his bosom. 'Do you want the…

— Angela Carter

Enhancement not only allows the possibilities of a healthy fullness and exuberance, but of a rather ominous extravagance, aberration, monstrosity ... This…

— Oliver Sacks

I've seen spring come to the orchard every year as far back as I can remember and I've never grown tired of…

— Lynn Austin

Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own

— Sallust

The sage avoids extremity, excess, and extravagance.

— Laozi

Allah loves moderation and hates extravagance and excess.

— Umar

Your book bill ought to be your biggest extravagance.

— C. S. Lewis

An extravagance is something you buy which is no earthly use to your wife.

— Franklin P. Adams

“Maskini mwenye pesa nyingi ni tajiri bahili. Tajiri mwenye mifuko iliyotoboka ni tajiri badhiri.”

— Enock Maregesi

He who buys what he does not want ends in wanting what he cannot buy.

— Alec-Tweedie