Extravagance Quotes

90 Extravagance quotes by 74 unique authors

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
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
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
Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances; it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance. — Samuel Johnson
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
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
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
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
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
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
Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich. — Oscar Wilde

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