Extravagance Quotes

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Where there is no extravagance there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding.

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour;

riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.

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, are ubiquitous and blind, that life itself is so astonishingly cheap, that nature is as careless as it is bountiful, and that with extravagance goes a crushing waste that will one day include our own cheap lives.

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, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications. All strong interests easily become impersonal, the love of a good job well done. There is a sense of harmony about such an accomplishment, the Peace brought by something worth while. Such personal gratification arises from aim beyond personality.

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. When so much general productive exertion is the consequence of luxury, the nation does not care though there are debtors; nay, they would not care though their creditors were there too.

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced. Extravagance! it depends on how you are yarded.

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance.

I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance.

It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they support themselves by temporary means, and everyday is lost in contriving for tomorrow.

The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now.

There was a big crash, but then the country picked itself up again, and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it.

My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty.

A bedroom requires a bed. Everything else was extravagance. Well, he had a bed all right.

An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.