Extravagance Quotes

I would prefer a thousand mistakes in extravagance of love to any paralysis in wariness of fear.

In the material world, where everything is valued, when you commit yourself to God, beauty and love, it can be mistaken for extravagance.

If extravagance were a fault, it would not have a place in the festivals of the gods.

Where there is no love there is no understanding.

Fashion's about extravagance, and everyone needs a bit of that.

He that spends a Groat a day idly, spends idly above 6 l. a year, which is the Price of using 100 l.

Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own

capital is the result of saving, and not of spending. The spendthrift who wastes his substance in riotous living decreases the capital of the country, and therefore the excuse often made for extravagance, that it is good for trade, is based upon false notions respecting capital.

Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.

An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms and extravagances of solitary and uncorrected speculation.

Archetypes are universal, and, in subtle or extravagant ways, interchangeable.

The substitution of meaning accounts for the grasping of misers as well as the extravagance of spendthrifts. Karl Marx well understood this peculiar transformation of flesh into coin.

It is better to have a plain, substantial building, with no extravagance about it, but without a debt, than to have the most splendid specimen of Gothic architecture that is overlaid by a mortgage.

The most extravagant thing I've ever bought is 95 tops all the same.

The extravagance of any corporate office is directly proportional to management's reluctance to reward the shareholders.

in dreams it is often the case that the greatest extravagances seem bereft of their power to astonish and the most improbable chimeras seem commonplace.

Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.

But in the present day men cast off gentleness, and are all for being bold; they spurn frugality, and retain only extravagance; they discard humility, and aim only at being first. Therefore they shall surely perish.

The sage avoids extremity, excess, and extravagance.

Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances; it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance.

Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar.

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

Beauty is not extravagance; beauty is life.

He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.

Test every work of intellect or faith and everything that your own hands have wrought.

I adore extravagance but I abhor waste.

Thrift is the really romantic thing; economy is more romantic than extravagance... thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste... if a man could undertake to make use of all the things in his dustbin, he would be a broader genius than Shakespeare.

Indulgence is emptiness. I have proved the limits of food and frivolity. There is no real fulfillment in meaningless rushes of pleasure. You try to conceal the emptiness with more extravagance, only to find the thrills becoming less satisfying and more fleeting. Most pleasures are best as a seasoning, not the main course. However you try to disguise it, you end up feeding without being nourished.

A large retinue upon a small income, like a large cascade upon a small stream, tends to discover its tenuity.

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

Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers.

Wealth comes from industry and from the hard experience of human toil. To dissipate it in waste and extravagance is disloyalty to humanity.

The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.

Mania's premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.

Extravagance is the rich man's pitfall.

We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be.

That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which he can afford to lose.

I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.

The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.

One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance.

Vigorous societies harbor a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications.

Allah loves moderation and hates extravagance and excess.

The extravagance of intellect outstrips the extravagance of desire.

Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.

There is hope in extravagance, there is none in routine.

Profuseness is a cruel and crafty demon, that gradually involves her followers in dependence and debt; that is, fetters them with irons that enter into their souls.

It may be affirmed, without extravagance, that the free institutions we enjoy, have developed the powers, and improved the condition, of our whole people, beyond any example in the world.

The whole point of extravagance is to act like a fool and feel like a fool, but enjoy it.

Adultery is extravagance.

We hold the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty is far superior to that of supplying the invented wants of courtly extravagance.