To shut the door at the end of the workday, which does not spill over into evening. To throw away books after… — Maxine Hong Kingston 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
Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities. Prune his extravagance, sober him, and you… — William James Copy Share Image
My only extravagance in life is my sailboat. I'm bonkers about that, but other than that, I don't spend money on myself. — Frank Gehry 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
The prodigality of millionaires is comparable only to their greed of gain. Let some whim or passion seize them and money is… — Honore de Balzac 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
We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Thrift is the really romantic thing; economy is more romantic than extravagance... thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic… — Gilbert K. Chesterton 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
That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which he can… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
If the art of gardening is at last to turn back from her extravagances and rest with her other sisters, it is,… — Friedrich Schiller 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
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
Enhancement not only allows the possibilities of a healthy fullness and exuberance, but of a rather ominous extravagance, aberration, monstrosity ... This… — Oliver Sacks 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
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
Test every work of intellect or faith and everything that your own hands have wrought. — William Butler Yeats 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
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
The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense corrupts the purest souls. — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me… — Ina Garten Copy Share Image
My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the… — Ellen Wilkinson Copy Share Image
Test every work of intellect or faith, And everything that your own hands have wrought And call those works extravagance of breath… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
