Lavish Quotes
97 quotes by 85 authors
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Some have lavish garments, carry sharp swords, and feast on food and drink. They possess more than they can spend. This is called the vanity…
— Laozi
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The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value…
— Wyndham Lewis
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I will not say with Lord Hale, that "The Law will admit of no rival" . . . but I will say that it is…
— Joseph Story
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We were lavish of blood in those days, and it was thought to be a great thing to charge a battery of artillery or an…
— Daniel Harvey Hill
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Praise the slightest improvement and praise every improvement. Be hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise.
— Dale Carnegie
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Credit expansion is the governments' foremost tool in their struggle against the market economy. In their hands it is the magic wand designed to conjure…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Johnny Rivers...returned to L.A. to accept a lucrative offer from Elmer Valentine to open at his lavish new nightclub based upon the popular European discotheque…
— Unknown Author
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When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child we were and the souls of the dead from whom we have sprung…
— Marcel Proust
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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
— Herodotus
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Oh, my fellow men, do not defile your bodies with sinful foods. We have corn, we have apples bending down the branches with their weight,…
— Pythagoras
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We Americans are the most lavish and showiest and most luxury loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and…
— Mark Twain
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The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish promiscuity.
— David Hare
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Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us; The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in, The priest hath his fee who…
— James Russell Lowell
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You know the Model of your Car. You know just what its powers are. You treat it with a deal of care, Nor tax it…
— John Kendrick Bangs
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While you can't keep your heart from getting broken, you can stop breaking your own heart...once you realize the difference between what you can control…
— Leigh Newman
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An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up an…
— Joseph Addison
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I'm a little lavish I must admit. But I'm not really concerned with money. Being rich is not my goal, being wealthy is.
— Cee Lo Green
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I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word 'lavish' and everything being magnificent.
— Tom Hooper
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I don't have lavish taste.
— Taylor Kinney
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What makes you so lavish that you can afford to spend every sober moment feeling angry and bored?
— Ani DiFranco
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