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Extravagance is the rich man's pitfall. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance. -- Charles Caleb Colton
An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity. -- Bernard Williams
Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich. -- Oscar Wilde
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand. -- Lady Randolph Churchill
Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft. -- Pericles
It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work. -- Virginia Woolf
My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure. -- Ina Garten
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. -- Howard Hodgkin
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. -- Ellen Wilkinson
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. -- Norman Rockwell
I adore extravagance but I abhor waste. -- Aaron Copland
There is hope in extravagance, there is none in routine. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fashion's about extravagance, and everyone needs a bit of that. -- Carine Roitfeld
He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption. -- Samuel Johnson
If extravagance were a fault, it would not have a place in the festivals of the gods. -- Aristippus
They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance... But the truth will prevail. -- Imelda Marcos
Most people think of Las Vegas, and they think of extravagance. But it's really a mix between fantasy and laziness. -- Gia Coppola
A large retinue upon a small income, like a large cascade upon a small stream, tends to discover its tenuity. -- William Shenstone
My only extravagance in life is my sailboat. I'm bonkers about that, but other than that, I don't spend money on myself. -- Frank Gehry
I prefer clothes that are simple, well-cut, but with one major extravagance. Something with the sleeves, with the skirt, but nothing too fussy, too flashy. -- Carolina Herrera
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. -- Richard Whately
I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car. -- Rachel Nichols
Christmas always rustled. It rustled every time, mysteriously, with silver and gold paper, tissue paper and a rich abundance of shiny paper, decorating and hiding everything and giving a feeling of reckless extravagance. -- Tove Jansson
One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book. -- Orison Swett Marden
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. -- Samuel Johnson
Test every work of intellect or faith, And everything that your own hands have wrought And call those works extravagance of breath That are not suited for such men as come Proud, open-eyed and laughing to the tomb. -- William Butler Yeats
Some have been ensnared in the net of excessive debt. The net of interest holds them fast, requiring them to sell their time and energies to meet the demands of creditors. They surrender their freedom, becoming slaves to their own extravagance. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
I would never want to model as my career, but fashion is my hobby. When you love what you're wearing, you feel good. I also love the extravagance of John Galliano for a big occasion. But I'm very bad with following trends. -- Maria Valverde
My Christian Louboutins are also one of the secrets to my not-for-profit success. Here's why - and it's something that everyone who manages employees, whether in a for-profit business or a not-for-profit, should keep in mind: A little extravagance goes a long way. -- Nancy Lublin
My biggest extravagances are also investments. I have several houses in California, a house in Nashville, an office complex, and I bought the old home place in Tennessee. They are different places for me to write, but I can turn right around and sell them. -- Dolly Parton
I hate the idea of natural. For example, I prefer gardens to wild nature. I like to see the human touch. High heels are a complete invention - an extravagance. They're far from natural, but it's the impracticality that I adore. I prefer the useless to the useful, the sophisticated to the natural. -- Christian Louboutin
My parents survived the Great Depression and brought me up to live within my means, save some for tomorrow, share and don't be greedy, work hard for the necessities in life knowing that money does not make you better or more important than anyone else. So, extravagance has been bred out of my DNA. -- David Suzuki
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. -- Samuel Johnson
When parents put gold into the hands of youth, when they should put a rod under their girdle--when instead of awe they make them past grace, and leave them rich executors of goods, and poor executors of godliness, then it is no marvel that the son being left rich by his father's will, becomes reckless by his own will. -- John Lyly
Nature is, above all, profligate. Don't believe them when they tell you how economical and thrifty nature is, whose leaves return to the soil. Wouldn't it be cheaper to leave them on the tree in the first place? This deciduous business alone is a radical scheme, the brainchild of a deranged manic-depressive with limitless capital. Extravagance! Nature will try anything once. -- Annie Dillard
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. -- Annie Dillard
Adultery is extravagance. -- Maxine Hong Kingston
Beauty is not extravagance; beauty is life. -- Imelda Marcos
The sage avoids extremity, excess, and extravagance. -- Laozi
Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives. -- Alfred North Whitehead
The True Person avoids extremes, self-indulgence, and extravagance. -- Laozi
Allah loves moderation and hates extravagance and excess. -- Umar
The extravagance of intellect outstrips the extravagance of desire. -- Mason Cooley
Your book bill ought to be your biggest extravagance. -- C. S. Lewis
The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance. -- Oscar Wilde
One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance. -- Robert Silverberg
You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I'm inclined to extravagance. -- Tennessee Williams
An extravagance is something you buy which is no earthly use to your wife. -- Franklin P. Adams
The first sign of extravagance is to buy trousers that one does not need. -- George Ade
Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance. -- Demosthenes
The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance. -- Michel de Montaigne
Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar. -- Willa Cather
The extravagance of any corporate office is directly proportional to management's reluctance to reward the shareholders. -- Peter Lynch
Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly. -- Plutarch
I would prefer a thousand mistakes in extravagance of love to any paralysis in wariness of fear. -- Gerald May
Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances; it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance. -- Samuel Johnson
Vigorous societies harbor a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications. -- Alfred North Whitehead
The whole point of extravagance is to act like a fool and feel like a fool, but enjoy it. -- Alfred Bester
I believe that music should be grown on trees, to be plucked like a fruit without the extravagance of harvest. -- Eyvind Kang
We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be. -- Edwin Percy Whipple
Mania's premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture. -- Benjamin Rush
Wealth comes from industry and from the hard experience of human toil. To dissipate it in waste and extravagance is disloyalty to humanity. -- Calvin Coolidge
In the material world, where everything is valued, when you commit yourself to God, beauty and love, it can be mistaken for extravagance. -- Imelda Marcos
We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle - even if he can afford more. -- Masaru Ibuka
Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities. Prune his extravagance, sober him, and you undo him. -- William James
I like extravagance. Letters which give the postman a stiff back to carry, books which overflow from their covers, sexuality which bursts the thermometers. -- Anais Nin
We all need the waters of the Mercy River. Though they don't run deep, there's usually enough, just enough, for the extravagance of our lives. -- Jonis Agee
The unparalleled extravagance of English rule has demented the rajas and the maharajas who, unmindful of consequences, ape it and grind their subjects to dust. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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. -- Oscar Wilde
The things we do at Christmas are touched with a certain extravagance, as beautiful, in some of its aspects, as the extravagance of nature in June. -- Robert Collyer
Nature is mythical and mystical always, and works with the license and extravagance of genius. She has her luxurious and florid style as well as art. -- Henry David Thoreau
Look, lovers: almost separately they come towards us through the flowery grass and slowly; parting's so far from thought of, they indulge the extravagance of walking unembraced. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
Will you tell me how to prevent riches from producing luxury? Will you tell me how to prevent luxury from producing effeminacy, intoxication, extravagance, vice and folly? -- John Adams
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. -- Thomas Paine
Perhaps, in the extravagance of youth, we give away our devotions easily and all but arbitrarily, on the mistaken assumption that we'll always have more to give. -- Michael Cunningham
I wish I could be a grandmother. It is wanton extravagance to have had a youth with no one to tell of it to when one grows old. -- Sylvia Townsend Warner
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. -- Lewis H. Lapham
My heart's so full of joy, That I shall do some wild extravagance Of love in public; and the foolish world, Which knows not tenderness, will think me mad. -- John Dryden
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. -- Abraham Lincoln
The new century will see unimaginable levels of wastefulness and extravagance, but it will also be an age in which the individual human being acquires a true and universally recognised value. -- Peter Robinson
No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
We can never put ourselves in the shoes of children; we cannot fathom their thoughts, we lend them ours; and always following ourown reasoning, we stuff their heads with extravagance and error. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
All the average human being asks is something he can call a home; a family that is fed and warm; and now and then a little happiness; once in a long while an extravagance. -- Mother Jones
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. -- William Mackergo Taylor
Good cookery is not an extravagance but an economy, and many a tasty dish is made by our Continental friends out of materials which would be discarded indignantly by the poorest tramp in Whitechapel. -- William Booth
The current fashion in belligerent atheism usually involves flinging condemnation around with a kind of gallant extravagance, more or less in the direction of all faiths at once, with little interest in precise aim. -- David Bentley Hart

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