Extravagance Quotes
90 quotes by 74 authors
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We all need the waters of the Mercy River. Though they don't run deep, there's usually enough, just enough, for the extravagance of our lives.
— Jonis Agee
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Look, lovers: almost separately they come towards us through the flowery grass and slowly; parting's so far from thought of, they indulge the extravagance of…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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The sage avoids extremity, excess, and extravagance.
— Laozi
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I never had a fondness for gems or the extravagance of Harry Winston or Van Cleef & Arpels. I've always liked the more flamboyant, imaginative…
— Iris Apfel
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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.
— Michel de Montaigne
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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle - even if he can afford more.
— Masaru Ibuka
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The extravagance of any corporate office is directly proportional to management's reluctance to reward the shareholders.
— Peter Lynch
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The True Person avoids extremes, self-indulgence, and extravagance.
— Laozi
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The current fashion in belligerent atheism usually involves flinging condemnation around with a kind of gallant extravagance, more or less in the direction of all…
— David Bentley Hart
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Do you know of any more overwhelming and humbling expression for God's condescension and extravagance towards us human beings than that He places Himself, so…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Fashion's about extravagance, and everyone needs a bit of that.
— Carine Roitfeld
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I would prefer a thousand mistakes in extravagance of love to any paralysis in wariness of fear.
— Gerald May
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In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention,…
— Susanne Katherina Langer
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No one as yet has approached the management of New York in a proper spirit; that is to say, regarding it as the shiftless outcome…
— Rudyard Kipling
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When I compare life to a dream I do not mean to denigrate it as some sort of meaningless fantasy. Life is too wonderful to…
— Timothy Freke
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An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.
— Bernard Williams
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Beauty is not extravagance; beauty is life.
— Imelda Marcos
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There was one bursting now, a delicate constellation of many-coloured stars which drifted down and lingered in the still air.... The final rocket went up,…
— Jan Struther
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Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for…
— Victor Hugo
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We deny that it is fun to be saving. It is fun to be prodigal. Go to the butterfly, thou parsimonious sluggard; consider her ways…
— Franklin P. Adams
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