No villainous bounty yet hath passed my heart; Unwisely, not ignobly, have I given. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity. — Bernard Williams Copy Share Image
We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle - even if he can… — Masaru Ibuka Copy Share Image
The new century will see unimaginable levels of wastefulness and extravagance, but it will also be an age in which the individual… — Peter Robinson Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately he was one of those who always tend to take their own fancies seriously; and in whose otherwise legitimate extravagance there… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“Her purchases just about busted her vacation budget, but what else is a vacation for, if not for overindulgence and mindless extravagance?” — Candace Schuler 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
In the material world, where everything is valued, when you commit yourself to God, beauty and love, it can be mistaken for… — Imelda Marcos Copy Share Image
He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption. — Samuel Johnson 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
“Heri kuishi kama maskini mwenye pesa nyingi kuliko tajiri mwenye mifuko iliyotoboka, kuliko kusema mbele za watu kwamba pesa haijakupa furaha. Wengi… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If we are to understand the human condition, and if we are to accept ourselves in all the complexity, self-doubt, extravagance of… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
My Christian Louboutins are also one of the secrets to my not-for-profit success. Here's why - and it's something that everyone who… — Nancy Lublin Copy Share Image
The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash, but… — Norman Rockwell Copy Share Image
I believe that some of my best images have [the] ambiguity which is an essence of life. In this sense I am… — John Gutmann 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 quite another thing," said Albert; "because a man under the influence of violent passion loses all power of reflection, and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
The idea, therefore, that religious faith is somehow a sacred human convention—distinguished, as it is, both by the extravagance of its claims… — Sam Harris 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
The vigour of civilised societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth while. Vigorous societies harbour a certain… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
After the one extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I've seen spring come to the orchard every year as far back as I can remember and I've never grown tired of… — Lynn Austin 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
The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense corrupts the purest souls. — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Test every work of intellect or faith and everything that your own hands have wrought. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Archetypes are universal, and, in subtle or extravagant ways, interchangeable. — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
The first sign of extravagance is to buy trousers that one does not need. — George Ade Copy Share Image