Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Please sell $10,000 worth of stock — we have decided to lead a mad and extravagant life.” — Harry Crosby Copy Share Image
Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance. — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle - even if he can… — Masaru Ibuka Copy Share Image
We deny that it is fun to be saving. It is fun to be prodigal. Go to the butterfly, thou parsimonious sluggard;… — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately he was one of those who always tend to take their own fancies seriously; and in whose otherwise legitimate extravagance there… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The new century will see unimaginable levels of wastefulness and extravagance, but it will also be an age in which the individual… — Peter Robinson Copy Share Image
“Her purchases just about busted her vacation budget, but what else is a vacation for, if not for overindulgence and mindless extravagance?” — Candace Schuler Copy Share Image
Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm… — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
“They understand not only evil, it seemed, but the extravagance of tricks with which evil presents itself as good.” — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
If we are to understand the human condition, and if we are to accept ourselves in all the complexity, self-doubt, extravagance of… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
capital is the result of saving, and not of spending. The spendthrift who wastes his substance in riotous living decreases the capital… — Millicent Fawcett Copy Share Image
The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash, but… — Norman Rockwell Copy Share Image
I believe that some of my best images have [the] ambiguity which is an essence of life. In this sense I am… — John Gutmann Copy Share Image
I hate the idea of natural. For example, I prefer gardens to wild nature. I like to see the human touch. High… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
No one as yet has approached the management of New York in a proper spirit; that is to say, regarding it as… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
I would never want to model as my career, but fashion is my hobby. When you love what you're wearing, you feel… — Maria Valverde Copy Share Image
“Most people are resistant to ideas, especially new ones. But they are fascinated by character. Extravagance of personality is one way in… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
After the one extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The vigour of civilised societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth while. Vigorous societies harbour a certain… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand. — Lady Randolph Churchill Copy Share Image
“Heri kuwa maskini mwenye pesa nyingi kuliko tajiri mwenye mifuko iliyotoboka.” — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
The whole point of extravagance is to act like a fool and feel like a fool, but enjoy it. — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance. — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor. — William Feather Copy Share Image
“Hence the sage puts away excessive effort, extravagance, and easy indulgence.” — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
“We pass our lives entirely in the search for extravagant adventures; and there is no extravagance with which we are not capable… — Stevenson, Robert Louis Copy Share Image
My heart's so full of joy, That I shall do some wild extravagance Of love in public; and the foolish world, Which… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The substitution of meaning accounts for the grasping of misers as well as the extravagance of spendthrifts. Karl Marx well understood this… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
It is better to have a plain, substantial building, with no extravagance about it, but without a debt, than to have the… — William Mackergo Taylor Copy Share Image
Will you tell me how to prevent riches from producing luxury? Will you tell me how to prevent luxury from producing effeminacy,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
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