Extravagance Quotes
90 quotes by 75 authors
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But in the present day men cast off gentleness, and are all for being bold; they spurn frugality, and retain only extravagance; they discard humility,…
— Laozi
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We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
— Lady Randolph Churchill
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Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they…
— Samuel Johnson
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Allah loves moderation and hates extravagance and excess.
— Umar
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The best results in the operation of a government wherein every citizen has a share largely depend upon a proper limitation of the purely partisan…
— Grover Cleveland
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The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.
— Oscar Wilde
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No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.
— Pericles
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My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.
— Ina Garten
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The obscurity, incredibility and obscenity, so conspicuous in many parts of it, would justly condemn the works of a modern writer. It contains a mixture…
— Elihu Palmer
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The Christians say, that among the ancient Jews, if you committed a crime you had to kill a sheep. Now they say 'charge it.' 'Put…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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If the art of gardening is at last to turn back from her extravagances and rest with her other sisters, it is, above everything, necessary…
— Friedrich Schiller
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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 but watches are…
— Jenson Button
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It is not expensive to be beautiful. It takes only a little effort to be presentable and beautiful. But it takes some effort. And unfortunately…
— Imelda Marcos
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In the material world, where everything is valued, when you commit yourself to God, beauty and love, it can be mistaken for extravagance.
— Imelda Marcos
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I adore extravagance but I abhor waste.
— Aaron Copland
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Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's…
— Howard Hodgkin
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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
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Savings represent much more than mere money value. They are the proof that the saver is worth something in himself. Any fool can waste; any…
— Rudyard Kipling
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My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance,…
— Ellen Wilkinson
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