The ocean-bordered southern part of California has always been a place of Hollywood make-believe, casual opulence, suntans and jewelry. — Dan Jenkins Copy Share Image
“By squirming out of our dungeon of indifference and wriggling from ourself-centered vault of unawareness, love can conjure up an aura of… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches, which in their eye… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
It is a thing which every sensible American should learn from every sensible Englishman, that glare and glitter, gimcracks and gewgaws, are… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Out of all the opulences of a living entity its humility which pleases Krishna. Other opulences can also please Krishna if offered… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
Riches are oft by guilt and baseness earn'd; Or dealt by chance to shield a lucky knave, Or throw a cruel sunshine… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
The haggardness of poverty is everywhere seen contrasted with the sleekness of wealth, the exhorted labour of some compensating for the idleness… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
Plenty is the original cause of many of our needs; and even the poverty, which is so frequent and distressful in civilized… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
One arranges flowers as the spirit moves you; to obey some inner prompting to put this colour with that, to have brilliance… — Constance Spry Copy Share Image
Poems offer us counter-knowledges. They let us see what is invisible to ordinary looking, and to find in overlooked corners the opulence… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
If Julian had flattered himself that his personal connexion with the capital of the East would be productive of mutual satisfaction to… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
