I never had a fondness for gems or the extravagance of Harry Winston or Van Cleef & Arpels. I've always liked the… — Iris Apfel Copy Share Image
Indulgence is emptiness. I have proved the limits of food and frivolity. There is no real fulfillment in meaningless rushes of pleasure.… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
Hobbies should be wives, not mistresses. It will not do to have more than one at a time. One hobby leads you… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make… — Pericles Copy Share Image
Highly graduate taxation realizes most completely the supreme danger of democracy, creating a state of things in which one class imposes on… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
The obscurity, incredibility and obscenity, so conspicuous in many parts of it, would justly condemn the works of a modern writer. It… — Elihu Palmer Copy Share Image
Savings represent much more than mere money value. They are the proof that the saver is worth something in himself. Any fool… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them:… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Change of ministers amounts to nothing. One goes out, another comes in, and still the same measures, vices, and extravagances are pursued.… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Consumption can be a remedy against boredom and may convey a sense of fictitious power and supremacy, by standing out from the… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Without thinking or reflecting, we plunge into war, contract heavy debts, increase vastly the patronage of the Executive, and indulge in every… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
Poverty is never dishonourable in itself, but only when it is a mark of sloth, intemperance, extravagance, or thoughtlessness. When, on the… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The uniform, constant, and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition . . . is frequently powerful enough to maintain… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
It is not without trepidation that I have appropriated the codes of the Sublime and the Picturesque in my work. After all,… — John Pfahl Copy Share Image
But in the present day men cast off gentleness, and are all for being bold; they spurn frugality, and retain only extravagance;… — Laozi Copy Share Image
When parents put gold into the hands of youth, when they should put a rod under their girdle--when instead of awe they… — John Lyly Copy Share Image
You've never had a hamburger before?" asks Christine, her eyes wide. "No," I say. "Is that what it's called?" "Stiffs eat plain… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Among the English authors, Shakespeare has incomparably excelled all others. That noble extravagance of fancy, which he had in so great perfection,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
