Extravagance Quotes

• Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own

  Sallust

  Greedy, Property, Extravagant

  'Catiline' ch. 5

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• 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

  Debt, Gothic, Architecture

  William Mackergo Taylor (1879). “Moses the Law-giver”

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Years

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.47, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• The first sign of extravagance is to buy trousers that one does not need.

  George Ade

  Doe, Needs, Firsts

  George Ade (1904). “True bills”

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

  Tanith Lee

  Way, Subtle, Archetype

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• 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

  Nature, Believe, Autumn

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.66, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• The prodigality of millionaires is comparable only to their greed of gain. Let some whim or passion seize them and money is of no account. In fact these Croesuses find whims and passions harder to come by than gold.

  Honore de Balzac

  Passion, Greed, Gold

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

  Chris Martin

  Extravagant

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Routine, There Is Hope

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.90, Harvard University Press

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

  Samuel Johnson

  Poverty, Corruption, Poor

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.21

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

  Aristippus

  Festivals, Faults, Ifs

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Luxury, Rich, Poor

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.187, Wordsworth Editions

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• Savings represent much more than mere money value. They are the proof that the saver is worth something in himself. Any fool can waste; any fool can muddle; but it takes something more of a man to save and the more he saves the more of a man he makes of himself. Waste and extravagance unsettle a man's mind for every crisis; thrift, which means some form of self-restraint, steadies it.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Mean, Men, Self

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

  Alfred Bester

  Fool, Enjoy, Feels

  Alfred Bester (1974). “Tiger! Tiger!”

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• I adore extravagance but I abhor waste.

  Aaron Copland

  Waste, Adore

  "Aaron Copland: the Life and Work of an Uncommon Man". Book by Howard Pollack, 1999.

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• The sage avoids extremity, excess, and extravagance.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Excess, Sage

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• We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.

  Lady Randolph Churchill

  Travel, Memorable, Adventure

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• Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.

  Victor Hugo

  Wish, Useless, Dry

  Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”

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• 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

  Men, Hands, Laughing

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Money, Poor

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.187, Wordsworth Editions

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• Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Greed, Soul, Literature

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• They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance... But the truth will prevail.

  Imelda Marcos

  Mean, Names, Truth Will Prevail

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We deny that it is fun to be saving. It is fun to be prodigal. Go to the butterfly, thou parsimonious sluggard; consider her ways and get wise.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Wise, Fun, Butterfly

  Franklin P. Adams (1944). “Nods and Becks”

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• 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

  Lying, Men, Differences

  William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.52, University of Illinois Press

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

  Bernard Williams

  Thinking, Spirit

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