If you would rise, shun luxury, for luxury lowers and degrades. — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
“Simplicity is one of the most unmatchable luxuries in life.” — Indeewara Jayawardane Copy Share Image
I'm not a real central-Moscow kid. I'm not used to luxury stuff. — Alexander Ovechkin Copy Share Image
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
No one had a better sense of luxury than Coco Chanel, She really had the spirit of the 20th Century. — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
Committing to a lifetime of wellness is not a luxury-it's a necessity. You'll never have enough time; you have to make the… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Far from being a “luxury for the rich,” organic farming may turn out to be a necessity not just for the poor,… — Raj Patel Copy Share Image
Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions. — William Allen White Copy Share Image
Pain does not create a long-lasting memory, but the memory of luxury exerts itself for ever. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Art and design are not luxuries, nor somehow incompatible with science and engineering, — Bran Ferren Copy Share Image
It's an amazing luxury to say I'm 31 years old and I'm gonna take a year off. That's pretty amazing. — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
The rights of the individual are greatly prized in the developed world, but in many other regions they are considered a luxury… — Silvia Cartwright Copy Share Image
The more various our artificial necessities, the wider is our circle of pleasure; for all pleasure consists in obviating necessities as they… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Television has certain imperatives that CNN had the luxury of ignoring for a long period of time. CNN could take the position… — Brit Hume Copy Share Image
Some people don't have the luxury to see a future without the man, as they are dependent on him. That's because they… — Pooja Bhatt Copy Share Image
The love of indulgence is rooted in the depths of a man's heart. His soul would prefer to share the excessive and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate,… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and… — Arabella Weir Copy Share Image
Speak the truth. Speak it loud and often, calmly but insistently, and speak it, as the Quakers say, to power. Material accumulation… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
Most of us have no sympathy with the rich idler who spends his life in pleasure without ever doing any work. But… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life… Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
Vonnegut's war was necessary. And yet it was massacre and screaming and confusion and blood and death. It was the mammoth projection… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
In their censures of luxury the fathers are extremely minute and circumstantial; and among the various articles which excite their pious indignation,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Based on the overwhelming array of luxury products manufacturers have recently introduced, homeowners want anything that makes their lives more comfortable at… — Stephanie Miller Copy Share Image
Man has sought to take from the natural world not only that which is necessary for his stability and survival, but often… — Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople Copy Share Image
I am sometimes perplexed by people who refer to defensive rifles, or defensive rifle shooting. The defensive arm is the pistol, since… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
In the second century of the Christian era, the Empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
