Extravagance Quotes

90 quotes by 74 authors

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
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
The sage avoids extremity, excess, and extravagance. — Laozi
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
The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance. — Michel de Montaigne
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
The extravagance of any corporate office is directly proportional to management's reluctance to reward the shareholders. — Peter Lynch
The True Person avoids extremes, self-indulgence, and extravagance. — Laozi
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
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
Fashion's about extravagance, and everyone needs a bit of that. — Carine Roitfeld
I would prefer a thousand mistakes in extravagance of love to any paralysis in wariness of fear. — Gerald May
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
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
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
An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity. — Bernard Williams
Beauty is not extravagance; beauty is life. — Imelda Marcos
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
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
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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