All things Quote by Alfred Marshall

Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends

— Coco Chanel

People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.

— Abdolkarim Soroush

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

— Nadia Boulanger

Nothing more strongly marks the insufficiency of luxuries than the ease with which people grow accustomed to them; they are rather known by their…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The more we desire for that which is superfluous, the more we meet with difficulties; our strength and possessions are spent in unnecessary things,…

— Maimonides

No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; and there is no condition…

— William Ellery Channing

In the affluent society, no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessities.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“Priorities are simple to establish; what is desire and what is necessity?”

— T.F. Hodge

The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.

— Seneca the Younger

Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Sufficient sleep, exercise, healthy food, friendship, and peace of mind are necessities, not luxuries.

— Mark Halperin

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe