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Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries. -- John Lothrop Motley
I think experience has shown that privateers have done more toward distressing the trade of our enemies, and furnishing these States with necessaries, than Continental Ships of the same force. -- William Whipple
If we had only those things which are procured with ease and freedom from danger, we should find the comforts and luxuries, if not many of the necessaries of life, considerably diminished. -- Dorothea Dix
To the truly benevolent mind, indeed, nothing is more satisfactory than to hear of a miser denying himself the necessaries of life a little too far and ridding us of his presence altogether. -- James Payn
It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character. -- Alfred Marshall
There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life. -- Benjamin Harrison
What money can buy has very little value beyond the necessaries of life. -- George Griffith
Khadi mentality means decentralization of the production and distribution of the necessaries of life. -- Mahatma Gandhi
In the production of the necessaries of life Nature is ready enough to assist man. -- Henry David Thoreau
Every man has an equal right to the necessaries of life even as birds and beasts have. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities. -- Samuel Johnson
Men have come to such a pass that they frequently starve, not for want of necessaries, but for want of luxuries. -- Henry David Thoreau
It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Some things are really necessaries of life in some circles, which in others are luxuries merely and in others still are entirely unknown. -- Henry David Thoreau
Whoever heard a man of fortune in England talk of the necessaries of life? . . . Whether we can afford it or no, we must have superfluities. -- John Gay
Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life. -- Adam Smith
... no man or woman should depend upon another for maintenance and necessaries. Family discord and social degradation will never end till each depends upon herself. -- Anandi Gopal Joshi
For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style. -- Ben Jonson
Any 'Christians' who take for themselves any more than the plain necessaries of life, live in an open habitual denial of the Lord. They have gained riches and hell-fire. -- John Wesley
Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation. -- Adam Smith
Wherever desirable superfluities are imported, industry is excited, and thereby plenty is produced. Were only necessaries permitted to be purchased, men would work no more than was necessary for that purpose. -- Benjamin Franklin
Far better, and more cheerfully, I could dispense with some part of the downright necessaries of life, than with certain circumstances of elegance and propriety in the daily habits of using them. -- Thomas de Quincey

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