Wealth comes from industry and from the hard experience of human toil. To dissipate it in waste and extravagance is disloyalty to… — Calvin Coolidge 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
All the average human being asks is something he can call a home; a family that is fed and warm; and now… — Mother Jones Copy Share Image
Vigorous societies harbor a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
If a man knows he will sooner or later be robbed upon a journey, he will have a bottle of the best… — Robert Louis Stevenson 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
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 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
Nature is, above all, profligate. Don't believe them when they tell you how economical and thrifty nature is, whose leaves return to… — Annie Dillard 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
When parents put gold into the hands of youth, when they should put a rod under their girdle--when instead of awe they… — John Lyly Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Among the English authors, Shakespeare has incomparably excelled all others. That noble extravagance of fancy, which he had in so great perfection,… — Joseph Addison 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
Without thinking or reflecting, we plunge into war, contract heavy debts, increase vastly the patronage of the Executive, and indulge in every… — John C. Calhoun 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
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 Copy Share Image
Look, lovers: almost separately they come towards us through the flowery grass and slowly; parting's so far from thought of, they indulge… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The extravagance of any corporate office is directly proportional to management's reluctance to reward the shareholders. — Peter Lynch 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… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance... But the truth will prevail. — Imelda Marcos Copy Share Image
I believe that music should be grown on trees, to be plucked like a fruit without the extravagance of harvest. — Eyvind Kang Copy Share Image
Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances; it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Tensurrealism creates actual and non-compromised reality, jamboree, fervor, fascination, poetics of an active enthusiasm, interludium, lyrical practice, active happiness.” — Lepota L. Cosmo Copy Share Image
Mania's premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture. — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
I was born ostentatious. They will list my name in the dictionary someday. They will use 'Imeldific' to mean ostentatious extravagance. — Imelda Marcos Copy Share Image
I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
in dreams it is often the case that the greatest extravagances seem bereft of their power to astonish and the most improbable… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
The unparalleled extravagance of English rule has demented the rajas and the maharajas who, unmindful of consequences, ape it and grind their… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A large retinue upon a small income, like a large cascade upon a small stream, tends to discover its tenuity. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
I like extravagance. Letters which give the postman a stiff back to carry, books which overflow from their covers, sexuality which bursts… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“Poverty is apt to strike suddenly like influenza, it is well to have a few memories of extravagance in store for bad… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Good cookery is not an extravagance but an economy, and many a tasty dish is made by our Continental friends out of… — William Booth Copy Share Image
Will you tell me how to prevent riches from producing luxury? Will you tell me how to prevent luxury from producing effeminacy,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“These are the words of a fool: I am happy to be a fool, for i won't spend my time gazing at… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my… — Rachel Nichols 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
As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
