Lavish Quotes
97 quotes by 87 authors
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The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.
— Walter Raleigh
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What fools indeed we morals are to lavish care upon a car, with never a bit of time to see about our own machinery!
— John Kendrick Bangs
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There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontent. And there is no greater disaster than greed.
— Laozi
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So long as mankind shall continue to lavish more praise upon its destroyers than upon its benefactors war shall remain the chief pursuit of ambitious…
— Edward Gibbon
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Books -lighthouses erected in the great sea of time -books, the precious depositories of the thoughts and creations of genius -books, by whose sorcery times…
— Edwin Percy Whipple
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Nature is always lavish of her gifts even to the most insignificant forms. The butterflies and moths are richly dowered in this respect.
— Annie Besant
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I don't have to live this lavish lifestyle.
— Shia LaBeouf
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A lavish colored evocation of Hollywood now gone, as shown through an afternoon in the milieu of the 1920's film star.
— Kenneth Anger
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George Lazenby is no one's favorite James Bond, but for me the anonymity at the center of this lavish production only serves to reveal the…
— Christopher Nolan
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Animals generally return the love you lavish on them by a swift bite in passing-not unlike friends and wives.
— Gerald Durrell
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America -- rather, the United States -- seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligned, envied, feared, imposed…
— Edna Ferber
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Lavish credit on anyone and everyone who helped you the least bit.
— Tom Peters
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There is nothing of which we are apt to be so lavish as of time, and about which we ought to be more solicitous; since…
— William Penn
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Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.
— Ayn Rand
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Weekly $25,000 shopping binges at Barney's and "high end" boutiques for clothes I barely wore were the norm. So were lavish meals with friends where…
— Andy Behrman
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Kafka would surely have been impressed by the twin ambitions of the modern empathetic state: the need to set up hyper-regulatory bodies preventing you from…
— Mark Steyn
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I note the derogatory rumors concerning the use of alcoholic stimulants and lavish living. It is the penalty of greatness.
— W.C. Fields
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Greet everyone you meet with a warm smile. No matter how busy you are, don't rush encounters with coworkers, family, and friends. Speak softly. Listen…
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
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In the best of all possible worlds, February 14 is a pleasant and sentimental opportunity to lavish your partner with attention or move your relationship…
— Pepper Schwartz
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