Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand. — Lady Randolph Churchill Copy Share Image
“Heri kuwa maskini mwenye pesa nyingi kuliko tajiri mwenye mifuko iliyotoboka.” — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
The whole point of extravagance is to act like a fool and feel like a fool, but enjoy it. — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor. — William Feather Copy Share Image
“Hence the sage puts away excessive effort, extravagance, and easy indulgence.” — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance. — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
We can never put ourselves in the shoes of children; we cannot fathom their thoughts, we lend them ours; and always following… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau 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
No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I wish I could be a grandmother. It is wanton extravagance to have had a youth with no one to tell of… — Sylvia Townsend Warner 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
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
I prefer clothes that are simple, well-cut, but with one major extravagance. Something with the sleeves, with the skirt, but nothing too… — Carolina Herrera Copy Share Image
It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I've spent as much as 30 grand on a watch but it's not about flaunting my wealth. I don't have many extravagances… — Jenson Button 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
Free will does not enable any man to perform good works, unless he is assisted by grace; indeed, the special grace which… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from… — Samuel Johnson 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
The Byzantines hammered away at their hard and orthodox symbols, because they could not be in a mood to believe that men… — Gilbert K. Chesterton 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
When I compare life to a dream I do not mean to denigrate it as some sort of meaningless fantasy. Life is… — Timothy Freke Copy Share Image
If love is the soul of Christian existence, it must be at the heart of every other Christian virtue. Thus, for example,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance. — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Please sell $10,000 worth of stock — we have decided to lead a mad and extravagant life.” — Harry Crosby Copy Share Image
Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich. — Oscar Wilde 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
Profuseness is a cruel and crafty demon, that gradually involves her followers in dependence and debt; that is, fetters them with irons… — Samuel Johnson 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
“There are those who hold that to quibble over matters of taste in the basic necessities of life is an extravagance” — Jun'ichirō Tanizaki Copy Share Image
Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
