An extravagance is something you buy which is no earthly use to your wife. — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
The current fashion in belligerent atheism usually involves flinging condemnation around with a kind of gallant extravagance, more or less in the… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
He who buys what he does not want ends in wanting what he cannot buy. — Alec-Tweedie 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
We hold the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty is far superior to that of supplying the… — Thomas Paine 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
Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance. — Demosthenes 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
An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity. — Bernard Williams Copy Share Image
“It struck Marra, watching, as an extravagance of grief. Someone wanted the world to know how sad he could afford to be.” — T. Kingfisher Copy Share Image
Christmas always rustled. It rustled every time, mysteriously, with silver and gold paper, tissue paper and a rich abundance of shiny paper,… — Tove Jansson 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
An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms… — Anonymous 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
It may be affirmed, without extravagance, that the free institutions we enjoy, have developed the powers, and improved the condition, of our… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I can look back . . . at two distinct periods of opinion whose foundations I have successively come to distrust -… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The Christians say, that among the ancient Jews, if you committed a crime you had to kill a sheep. Now they say… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There was one bursting now, a delicate constellation of many-coloured stars which drifted down and lingered in the still air.... The final… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
The first sign of extravagance is to buy trousers that one does not need. — George Ade Copy Share Image
Do you know of any more overwhelming and humbling expression for God's condescension and extravagance towards us human beings than that He… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
What do you see when you see me?' She asked him, burying her own face in his bosom. 'Do you want the… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
