Connoisseur Quote by Edith Wharton

And dilettantism is a humorous way to survive. Everybody understands you for it and everybody hates you for it. And not everybody chooses to…

— Francesco Clemente

When we turn luxuries into necessities, we jeopardize our ability for contentedness.

— Alistair Begg

We sometimes underestimate the influence of little things

— Charles W. Chesnutt

“No one is to be found who is willing to distribute his money, yet among how many does each one of us distribute his…

— Taylor Pearson

“Simplicity is an exact medium between too little and too much”

— Anonymous

Our overvaluation of speed (time here as only money) has robbed us of many things that are at least equally precious.

— Doreen Massey

From the very beginning our people have markedly combined practical capacity for affairs with power of devotion to an ideal. The lack of either…

— Theodore Roosevelt

In a world where nearly one billion people live near the edge of physical survival the relevance of intentional simplicity by the more affluent…

— Duane Elgin

“Their intrinsic worth is not enough, for not all turn the goods over and look deep. Most run where the crowd is--because the others…

— Balthazar Gracian

“Meanwhile, the must-haves we're encouraged to lust over bombard us from every direction. Jewellery. Clothes. Technology. Cars. In pursuit of them, the reasons for…

— Gabriella Bennett

“In a hyper materialist environment where everything is reduced to mere economic considerations, what we deem to be important is often trivial, a temporary…

— Cory Bernardi

For greed, all nature is too little.

— Anonymous