Extravagance Quotes · Page 2

Free will does not enable any man to perform good works, unless he is assisted by grace; indeed, the special grace which…

— John Calvin

Perhaps, in the extravagance of youth, we give away our devotions easily and all but arbitrarily, on the mistaken assumption that we’ll…

— Michael Cunningham

We all need the waters of the Mercy River. Though they don't run deep, there's usually enough, just enough, for the extravagance…

— Jonis Agee

Nature is mythical and mystical always, and works with the license and extravagance of genius. She has her luxurious and florid style…

— Henry David Thoreau

The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.

— William Feather

I believe that some of my best images have [the] ambiguity which is an essence of life. In this sense I am…

— John Gutmann

“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

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

Extravagant love is never wasted.

— Bob Goff

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

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

— H. P. Lovecraft

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

— Enock Maregesi

You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.

— Tennessee Williams

As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that…

— Samuel Johnson

The obscurity, incredibility and obscenity, so conspicuous in many parts of it, would justly condemn the works of a modern writer. It…

— Elihu Palmer

Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Change of ministers amounts to nothing. One goes out, another comes in, and still the same measures, vices, and extravagances are pursued.…

— Thomas Paine

The new century will see unimaginable levels of wastefulness and extravagance, but it will also be an age in which the individual…

— Peter Robinson

“Her purchases just about busted her vacation budget, but what else is a vacation for, if not for overindulgence and mindless extravagance?”

— Candace Schuler

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

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

— Aristippus

Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances; it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance.

— Samuel Johnson

“Toa msaada katika jamii iliyosaidia kukulea ulipokuwa mdogo.”

— Enock Maregesi

“Please sell $10,000 worth of stock — we have decided to lead a mad and extravagant life.”

— Harry Crosby

The True Person avoids extremes, self-indulgence, and extravagance.

— Laozi