Extravagance Quotes

I would prefer a thousand mistakes in extravagance of love to any paralysis in wariness of fear.

In the material world, where everything is valued, when you commit yourself to God, beauty and love, it can be mistaken for extravagance.

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

Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own

Where there is no love there is no understanding.

Fashion's about extravagance, and everyone needs a bit of that.

capital is the result of saving, and not of spending. The spendthrift who wastes his substance in riotous living decreases the capital of the country, and therefore the excuse often made for extravagance, that it is good for trade, is based upon false notions respecting capital.

Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.

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

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.

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

An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms and extravagances of solitary and uncorrected speculation.

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.

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

The extravagance of any corporate office is directly proportional to management's reluctance to reward the shareholders.

in dreams it is often the case that the greatest extravagances seem bereft of their power to astonish and the most improbable chimeras seem commonplace.

The sage avoids extremity, excess, and extravagance.

But in the present day men cast off gentleness, and are all for being bold; they spurn frugality, and retain only extravagance; they discard humility, and aim only at being first. Therefore they shall surely perish.

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

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

Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances; it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance.

Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar.

Beauty is not extravagance; beauty is life.

Test every work of intellect or faith and everything that your own hands have wrought.

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