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Lavish credit on anyone and everyone who helped you the least bit. -- Tom Peters
Lavish giving and open homes are close to the center of life in Christ. -- John Piper
Lavish praise on people and people will flourish; criticize people and they'll shrivel up. -- Richard Branson
Lavish love on every living being you meet. See how different you feel at the end of the day. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
Lavish love on others receive it gratefully when it come to you. Cultivate friendship like a garden. It is the best love of all. -- Helen Prejean
Lavish thousands of dollars on your baby clothes, and after all the child is prettiest when every garment is laid aside. That becoming nakedness, at least, may adorn the chubby darling of the poorest home. -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson
A liar is always lavish of oaths. -- Pierre Corneille
I don't have to live this lavish lifestyle. -- Shia LaBeouf
Be always lavish of your caresses, and sparing in your corrections. -- William Cavendish
The lavish presentation appeals to me, and I've got to convince the others. -- Freddie Mercury
We weren't poor growing up on Long Island, but it wasn't lavish - just a regular middle-class house. -- Criss Angel
I don't throw lavish parties or nothing like that - I just want a bed and a TV. -- Bruno Mars
The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application. -- Miguel de Cervantes
I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word 'lavish' and everything being magnificent. -- Tom Hooper
We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might. -- Mignon McLaughlin
I'm a little lavish I must admit. But I'm not really concerned with money. Being rich is not my goal, being wealthy is. -- CeeLo Green
I like to keep things classic, not lavish or blinged out. I don't even say that word. The last thing I want to be is over the top. -- Dhani Jones
The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact. -- Wyndham Lewis
In the best of all possible worlds, February 14 is a pleasant and sentimental opportunity to lavish your partner with attention or move your relationship to the next level. -- Pepper Schwartz
What people want is not what some would call imaginative and often austere productions but very lavish productions which cast back into the auditorium an image of their affluence. -- Jonathan Miller
And, we have no such thing as a budget anymore. Our manager freaks when we show him the bill. We're lavish to the bone, but all our money goes back into the product. -- Freddie Mercury
I love the Cannes Film Festival. From the lavish parties and events to the red carpet attire, this star-studded week-long event is where I get a lot of inspiration for hair and fashion. -- Tabatha Coffey
Smaller families mean we have more time and money to lavish on each child. Parents are more anxious because small families give them less experience of parenting and put their genetic eggs in fewer baskets. -- Carl Honore
Owners lavish love on their pets, which is why so many go from non-aggressive pups to being out of control when they're older. People just don't realise their dog must respect them as leader of the pack. -- Cesar Millan
If I have learned anything, it is to keep my wife happy by sending her lavish gifts. Other men can learn from my success and send their wives and girlfriends fresh flowers for birthdays, anniversaries, and of course, Valentine's Day. -- Don Rickles
Evidence of defendants' lavish lifestyles is often used to provide a motive for fraud. Jurors sometimes wonder why an executive making tens of millions of dollars would cheat to make even more. Evidence of habitual gluttony helps provide the answer. -- Alex Berenson
I think human self-hatred may be the great untold story of the millennium. It's the common thread linking deep ecology and animal rights, the love and money we lavish on pets, the uneasy longing for extraterrestrials to be meddling with us. -- Annie Gottlieb
For novelists, the imagination is everything. The trick is to guide one's imagination using research. I love using old maps. When I wrote my novels on London and New York, I found wonderful historical atlases. Paris has the most lavish maps of all. -- Edward Rutherfurd
You don't have a lot of time; you have to get it right. It's amazing how they create these episodes in such a short amount of time. They lavish a lot of care and money on each episode, and they just look terrific. -- Margot Kidder
Often, those who bruise easily spend too much time thinking about themselves. I'd go so far as to say that oversensitivity is a privilege of the underoccupied. The majority of people don't have the time to lavish care on emotional wounds - they're too busy getting on with living. -- Mariella Frostrup
What distinguishes a great mnemonist, I learned, is the ability to create lavish images on the fly, to paint in the mind a scene so unlike any other it cannot be forgotten. And to do it quickly. Many competitive mnemonists argue that their skills are less a feat of memory than of creativity. -- Joshua Foer
Ms.' always flouted the rules of the ad world that say, especially for products directed at women, that the ad must be connected to the editorial. You don't have food ads unless you have recipes. You don't get clothing ads unless you have lavish fashion coverage. We never did that; every other women's magazine does. -- Gloria Steinem
I don't have lavish taste. -- Taylor Kinney
I don't have a lavish lifestyle with expensive cars. -- Donny Osmond
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens. -- Herodotus
Do not get a name as overly lavish or too inhospitable. -- Hesiod
Why work? The gods are there to lavish upon the faithful the good gifts of nature. -- Paul Gauguin
The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish promiscuity. -- David Hare
No price is set on the lavish summer; June may be had by the poorest comer. -- James Russell Lowell
When we lavish our money we rob our heir; when we merely save it we rob ourselves. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes a fool of him. -- Publilius Syrus
People never remeber happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering. -- Edward St Aubyn
Praise the slightest improvement and praise every improvement. Be hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise. -- Dale Carnegie
What makes you so lavish that you can afford to spend every sober moment feeling angry and bored? -- Ani DiFranco
Such is my curse, Branwyn O'Tyre. Every woman I touch is forced to lavish her affections upon me. -- Jo Grafford
I entreat fresh visions from the painters. Be lavish with your vermilion to portray the mountains in the spring. -- Lu Xun
Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds. -- Walter Raleigh
Animals generally return the love you lavish on them by a swift bite in passing-not unlike friends and wives. -- Gerald Durrell
Our breath is brief, and being so Let's make our heaven here below, And lavish kindness as we go. -- Robert W. Service
God pours out love upon all with a lavish hand -- but He reserves vengeance for His very own. -- Mark Twain
I note the derogatory rumors concerning the use of alcoholic stimulants and lavish living. It is the penalty of greatness. -- W. C. Fields
Rarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor's speech into sorcery. -- Bill Vaughan
How lavish is Nature building, pulling down, creating, destroying, chasing every material particle from form to form, ever changing, ever beautiful. -- John Muir
A lavish colored evocation of Hollywood now gone, as shown through an afternoon in the milieu of the 1920's film star. -- Kenneth Anger
Heap high the farmer's wintry hoard! Heap high the golden corn! No richer gift has Autumn poured From out her lavish horn! -- John Greenleaf Whittier
Nature is always lavish of her gifts even to the most insignificant forms. The butterflies and moths are richly dowered in this respect. -- Annie Besant
There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontent. And there is no greater disaster than greed. -- Laozi
What fools indeed we morals are to lavish care upon a car, with never a bit of time to see about our own machinery! -- John Kendrick Bangs
A high income job, a big house, nice cars, and lavish vacations don't mean you are rich, in fact it could mean exactly opposite -- Robert Kiyosaki
When will I ever learn to accept what is given instead of always yearning for more? My lavish expectations too often tarnish my blessings. -- Joan Anderson
Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production. -- Ayn Rand
The astronomers tell us that other planets are gifted with two - four - even nine lavish moons. Imagine the romantic possibilities of nine moons. -- Edna Ferber
So long as mankind shall continue to lavish more praise upon its destroyers than upon its benefactors war shall remain the chief pursuit of ambitious minds. -- Edward Gibbon
I love him whose soul is lavish, who wanteth no thanks and doth not give back: for he always bestoweth, and desireth not to keep for himself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I ask you, what good is a big picture window and the lavish appointments and a priceless decor in a home if there is no mother there? -- Spencer W. Kimball
We have entered the era of the 'imperial' former presidency with lavish libraries, special staffs and benefits, around-the-clock Secret Service protection for life and other badges of privilege. -- Lawton Chiles
Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum. -- Frederick Douglass
We were lavish of blood in those days, and it was thought to be a great thing to charge a battery of artillery or an earthwork lined with infantry. -- Daniel Harvey Hill
An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up an indolent attention in the audience. -- Joseph Addison
I haven't ever seen a period drama that has a fantasy element to it, that's set in London, that's as lavish as it is, and that's made for American TV. -- Oliver Jackson-Cohen
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The irony of acquiring a foreign tongue is that I have amassed just enough cheap, serviceable words to fuel my desires and never, never enough lavish, impudent ones to feed them. -- Monique Truong
What is writing, no matter how lavish the pieces, if it says nothing of the truth, cares little for the heart, and is merely subservient to the pleasure of showing one's brilliance. -- Muriel Barbery
If we would spend on education half the amount of money that we currently lavish on sports and entertainment, we could provide complete and free education for every student in this country. -- Benjamin Carson
Some have lavish garments, carry sharp swords, and feast on food and drink. They possess more than they can spend. This is called the vanity of robbers. It is certainly not the Way. -- Laozi
There is nothing of which we are apt to be so lavish as of time, and about which we ought to be more solicitous; since without it we can do nothing in this world. -- William Penn
In a country where nature has been so lavish and where we have been so spendthrift of indigenous beauty, to set aside a few rivers in their natural state should be considered an obligation. -- Frank Church
When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child we were and the souls of the dead from whom we have sprung come to lavish on us their riches and their spells. -- Marcel Proust
We Americans are the most lavish and showiest and most luxury loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen. -- Mark Twain
There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors. I never criticize anyone...If I like anything, I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise. -- Charles R. Schwab

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