Extravagance Quotes
90 Extravagance quotes by 74 unique authors
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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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I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth, which we value,…
— Annie Dillard
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As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer.…
— Samuel Johnson
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Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances; it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance.
— Samuel Johnson
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The vigour of civilised societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth while. Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives,…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of it, is this-they…
— William Hazlitt
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Enhancement not only allows the possibilities of a healthy fullness and exuberance, but of a rather ominous extravagance, aberration, monstrosity ... This danger is built…
— Oliver Sacks
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My parents survived the Great Depression and brought me up to live within my means, save some for tomorrow, share and don't be greedy, work…
— David Suzuki
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If love is the soul of Christian existence, it must be at the heart of every other Christian virtue. Thus, for example, justice without love…
— Richard Rohr
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He that spends a Groat a day idly, spends idly above 6 l. a year, which is the Price of using 100 l.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.
— Oscar Wilde
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