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Extravagant love is never wasted. -- Bob Goff
Then love of pleasure sways each heart, and we From that no more than from ourselves can fly. Blameless when govern'd well. But where it errs Extravagant, and wildly leads to ill, Public or private, there its curbing pow'r Cool reason must exert. -- John Armstrong
I am built close to the ground and of extravagant body. -- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
All my books started out as extravagant and ended up pure and plain. -- Annie Dillard
Honestly, I'm not an extravagant person; I don't spend a lot of money. -- Liam Hemsworth
A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich. -- William Shenstone
I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life. -- Imelda Marcos
Living modestly in a suburban neighborhood while trying to support four children through private school is not extravagant or living large. -- Marlee Matlin
I'm not an extravagant man. The fact that I can have a coffee out whenever I want still makes me feel grateful. -- Peter Capaldi
People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage? -- Imelda Marcos
What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly? -- William Law
My mum and dad are pretty amazing chefs and they spent most of my childhood cooking really extravagant things for my sister and me. -- Jake Gyllenhaal
The great thing about costume jewelry is that there's something for everyone - there are very humorous pieces and very extravagant and outrageous pieces. -- Judith Miller
The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it. -- Chester A. Arthur
I'm not extravagant. I share my house in London with five roommates. I take the Tube. I intend to stay the exact same person I always was. -- Margot Robbie
But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense. -- Charles Ives
I cap myself when I shop; I don't like to spend extravagant amounts on clothes. But, I do get lent clothes for events, it's scary to wear something so expensive, but I feel really pampered. -- Taylor Swift
In the first weeks after Hiroshima, extravagant statements by President Truman and other official spokesmen for the U.S. government transformed the inception of the atomic age into the most mythologized event in American history. -- Stewart Udall
There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes - seize it, don't miss it. -- Max Lucado
I love giving gifts and I love receiving them. I really like giving little kids extravagant gifts. You see their little faces light up and they get excited. If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands. -- Gina Gershon
Mo Udall didn't want the presidency bad enough. He was too sane. He was a marvelous guy, but you had the feeling there was another Udall outside his body watching the candidate Udall who was too extravagant, telling him to cut it out. -- Jack Germond
I have pets, but they're the really ordinary sort - yellow Labrador, tabby cat, white rabbit, a few goldfish - that kind of stuff. Nothing very... extravagant or unusual or exotic, but I find, in terms of inspiration, Mother Nature is just it. -- Graeme Base
I'm not a big spender or shopper. Neither am I extravagant, nor do I have big expenses. I mainly spend on travel. I don't buy overpriced clothes, as I feel such expenses are unnecessary. I probably wouldn't buy expensive watches or jewellery either. -- Katrina Kaif
A fine memoir is to a fine novel as a well-wrought blanket is to a fancifully embroidered patchwork quilt. The memoir, a logical creation, dissects and dignifies reality. Fiction, wholly extravagant, magnifies it and gives it moral shape. Fiction has no practical purpose. Fiction, after all, is art. -- Julia Glass
A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
My mom used to make my costumes when I was little; she sews a lot. One year, I was a bride and I had a big wedding dress and a bouquet. Another year I was a medieval princess with a long teal dress and a veil. It was a little extravagant, but it was cute! -- Sasha Pieterse
I think that I was lucky that I was 30 when I did 'Love Story', which came with this extravagant pop celebrity. I had already done 15 years of what I call 'real' work.' I was a waitress, chambermaid, and a photographer's assistant, so I knew that I was tremendously lucky as a novice actor to have that big hit. -- Ali MacGraw
I was born in Paris in the mid-1960s, and by the time I was 12 I had started going to the movies by myself. Most of the movies of that period never appealed to me. I didn't like the 'naturalism,' the sad or the 'down-to-earth' characters. What I wanted from film was fantasy, dreams, funny situations, extravagant decor - and beautiful women. -- Christian Louboutin
The latter estimate is certainly an extravagant exaggeration -- Helmut Schmid
Life is an extravagant gown, riddled with lice. -- Eileen Chang
The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation. -- Annie Dillard
If it's darkness we're having, let it be extravagant. -- Jane Kenyon
Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own -- Sallust
In the Eighties, live work had to be very extravagant. -- Paul Young
Archetypes are universal, and, in subtle or extravagant ways, interchangeable. -- Tanith Lee
I wouldn't want to be just pigeonholed as an extravagant director. -- Harold Prince
I don't know how to overcome this perception that I'm extravagant. -- Frank Gehry
The most extravagant thing I've ever bought is 95 tops all the same. -- Chris Martin
Most of the comedies I've done have been rather farcical and extravagant. -- Kevin Kline
Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses. -- Theophrastus
Honestly, I'm not an extravagant person, I don't spend a lot of money. -- Liam Hemsworth
New York... Babylon-on-the-Hudson, sinful, extravagant, full of the nervous hilarity of the doomed. -- Lucius Beebe
Congratulate yourself if you have done something strange, extravagant and broken the monotony. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
God's extravagant generosity toward us compels us to be extravagantly generous toward others. -- Andy Stanley
I don't have extravagant tastes or expenses - like with cars, clothes, or whatever. -- Raymond Pettibon
I never wanted to be the most famous, the most beautiful, the most extravagant. -- Manolo Blahnik
Not going to give casual worship to a God of extravagant beauty and grace! -- Louie Giglio
I don't indulge in anything extravagant but I can't keep money in the bank. -- Paul Young
Love doesn't try to be efficient; when it is most extravagant, it is least wasted. -- Bob Goff
To be extravagant you need money. True. But you do not need your own money. -- George Mikes
A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich. -- William Shenstone
I lived in a studio apartment until my mid-30s. I don't have an extravagant lifestyle. -- Craig Kilborn
Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying . . . demonstrates our foolhardy and extravagant sentimentalism, -- Margaret Sanger
He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption. -- Samuel Johnson
Nothing is too extravagant to expect from men who conceive they are ungratefully and unjustly dealt by. -- George Washington
The famous soft watches are nothing else than the tender, extravagant, solitary, paranoic-critical camembert oftime and space. -- Salvador Dali
....shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle. -- Pliny the Elder
Many a husband lives to regret the extravagant fee he bestowed upon the minister who sentenced him. -- Evan Esar
When had my fear of broken plates gotten so grandiose? My desire for extravagant moments so small? -- Sue Monk Kidd
Everything is on a reduced scale here in the Polar regions; we can't afford to be extravagant. -- Roald Amundsen
Are you a stingy breather? Well, don't be. Be extravagant with you breathing and come fully alive. -- Ron Fletcher
Jesus wants to give you five things: extravagant compassion, moral clarity, sacrificial courage, persevering hope, and refreshing joy, -- Gary Haugen
Everybody thinks about Bo Derek as being this extravagant looking lady but she is also a wonderful actress. -- Wayne Rogers
How unfortunate is the guy who does not live in the extravagant memory of an infatuated young woman. -- Manu Joseph
I read the most extravagant things about people who suffer and depress because of things written about them. -- Mick Jagger
If our worship isn't visible, comprehensive and extravagant, the gospel we heard must have been tiny, empty and cheap. -- Louie Giglio
Don't spend money on extravagant things like cars and big vacations. Spend it on things that are really fun. -- Justin Flom
Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation. -- David Quammen
I'm not an extravagant person. You don't get a chance to spend money when you're working on a TV show. -- Aidan Turner
But then anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm. -- Virginia Woolf
You say you need help. Help for what? You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life. -- Carlos Castaneda
God blesses his people with extravagant grace so they might extend his extravagant glory to all peoples on the earth -- David Platt
In the stories of extravagant grace given to us by Jesus, there are no loopholes disqualifying us from God's love. -- Philip Yancey
America is exceptional in combining standard great-power realism with extravagant idealism about the country's redemptive role in creating international order. -- Michael Ignatieff
History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure. -- Thurgood Marshall
Arab states continue to send the Palestinians gifts of extravagant rhetoric and countless Arab League resolutions - but not much cash. -- Elliott Abrams
I'm practically broke and homeless. This fatal city, Antioch, has devoured all my money: this fatal city with its extravagant life. -- C.P. Cavafy
We each own one car, and we have a reasonable house. It's a lovely place to be, but it's not extravagant. -- Reese Witherspoon
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant. -- Eric Hoffer
The possibilities of existence run so deeply into the extravagant that there is scarcely any conception too extraordinary for Nature to realise. -- Louis Agassiz
Every video I do is over budget by the time I walk on set. I am massively extravagant in my personal habits. -- Rufus Wainwright
I love the tradition of changing gowns throughout the reception. I know it's a little extravagant, but why not - it's your moment. -- Austin Scarlett
A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp. -- Carson McCullers
I don't go out and get arrested anymore. The most extravagant thing I do these days is play golf. I'm like an old man. -- Brad Renfro
Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Jesus is not a religious leader; He is a Savior. You can enjoy His extravagant love even right after you fall into your extravagant sin. -- Carlos A. Rodriguez
Personally, I resent being tagged â??glamour girl.â?? Itâ??s such an absurd, extravagant label. It implies so much that Iâ??m not. -- Carole Lombard
The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous. -- Pablo Picasso
American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits (besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are their ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress. -- Abba Louisa Goold Woolson
The Communists have for decades loudly proclaimed their goal of destroying the bourgeois world, while the West merely smiled at what seemed to be an extravagant joke. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I'm not an extravagant guy ... I don't like going over the top on anything. I have what I need and I try to keep it that way. -- Jose Bautista
As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever. -- Rachel Zoe
I think I understand life. I think I understand how to live. I'm enjoying my life. I don't really live in an as extravagant way as people think. -- Donald Trump
Stephen Jones' hats are what we used to call 'creations'; extravagant, odd things for extravagant, odd people like Madonna or Lady Gaga. They're worn in a parallel universe. -- Peter York
Should philosophers be expected to change the world? Such an expectation seems to me extravagant. Marx himself didn't change the world: he reinterpreted it, then other people changed it. -- J. M. Coetzee
What the people call eloquence is the facility some persons have of speaking alone and for a long time, aided by extravagant gestures, a loud voice, and powerful lungs. -- Jean de la Bruyere
If the way to do good to my country were to render myself popular, I could easily do it. But extravagant popularity is not the road to public advantage. -- John Adams
Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor. -- Martial
I long to be known as an extravagant worshiper...that God would discover the song in my heart to be elaborate, overgenerous, and wasteful in my pursuit of Him. -- Darlene Zschech
I am sorry to tell you that I am getting very extravagant and spending all my money: and what is worse for you, I have been spending yours too. -- Jane Austen
I do want an expensive honeymoon. Not because I'm extravagant, but because a honeymoon is a solemn, important thing ... a symbol. And it ought to be done -- well, adequately. -- Arnold Bennett
Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age. -- Anna Garlin Spencer
The extravagant and ostentatious lifestyles that pass for charisma in a time when almost anybody talks about charisma but if you think about it there's precious little to be seen. -- Lester Bangs
Men are divided between those who are as thrifty as if they would live forever, and those who are as extravagant as if they were going to die the next day. -- Aristotle
A poor man knows the true value of money and will not dare waste it, but a rich man is extravagant and always looking for an opportunity to empty his pockets. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
love is a chemical imbalance, too. That perilous highs and desperate lows and extravagant flurries of mood are not always symptoms of a broken mind, but signs of a beating heart. -- Terri Cheney
There have certainly been many periods in history when virtue was more rare than under the Caesars; but there has probably never been a period when vice was more extravagant or uncontrolled. -- William Edward Hartpole Lecky
We can be satisfied with moderate confidence in ourselves and with a moderately good opinion of ourselves, but the faith we have in a holy cause has to be extravagant and uncompromising. -- Eric Hoffer
When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, 'tain't any laughing matter! -- Sinclair Lewis
There is more respect to be won in the opinion of this world by a resolute and courageous liquidation of unsound positions than by the most stubborn pursuit of extravagant or unpromising objectives. -- George F. Kennan
His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death. -- Evelyn Waugh
My father had his own business, a clothing store, which he inherited from his father. He travelled abroad frequently and was quite extravagant, so we had skiing holidays and summer holidays on the beach. -- Britt Ekland
When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination. -- Andrew Motion
Crude at first [the short story] received a literary polish in the press, but its dominant quality remained. It was concise and condense, yet suggestive. It was delightfully extravagant - or a miracle of understatement -- Bret Harte
Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have bought a husband, we must then accept him as possessor of our body." -- Euripides
We should not expect the state to appear in the guise of an extravagant good fairy at every christening, a loquacious companion at every stage of life's journey, and the unknown mourner at every funeral. -- Margaret Thatcher
Fashion being the art of those who must purchase notice at some cheaper rate than that of being beautiful, loves to do rash and extravagant things. She must be forever new, or she becomes insipid. -- James Russell Lowell
I looked around at us all: me in my nightgown, Kiyo bare-chested, Dorian in his extravagant robes, and Tim in his Native getup. God, I muttered, standing up, we all look like the village people. -- Richelle Mead
Your trees must be tended; if you can afford it, you owe it to them. I don't buy expensive plants; if I am extravagant in any way it is in the care of my garden. -- Elisabeth Murdoch

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