Luxury Quotes - Page 16

I don't believe in simply accumulating money, but I have the luxury to say that, because I have enough for all my needs

The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us.

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.

This country cannot afford the deceptive luxury of waging defensive warfare.

Fish is held out to be one of the greatest luxuries of the table and not only necessary, but even indispensable at all dinners where there is any pretence of excellence or fashion.

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

From the elitism of luxury to the democracy of beauty.

Existentialism is possible only in a world where God is dead or a luxury, and where Christianity is dead.

The love of indulgence is rooted in the depths of a man's heart. His soul would prefer to share the excessive and unrestrained; but his soul cannot love.

Stupidity is a luxury and you will find time and time and time and again that those who are overwhelmingly on the left are those who can afford to be.

Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism.

What is bad about luxury as long as you can afford it?

The best taxes are such as are levied upon consumptions, especially those of luxury; because such taxes are least felt by the people. They seem, in some measure, voluntary; since a man may choose how far he will use the commodity: They naturally produce sobriety and frugality, if judiciously imposed: And being confounded with the natural price of the commodity, they are scarcely perceived by the consumers. Their only disadvantage is that they are expensive in the levying.

Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends

Some people think happiness is a luxury, but its a necessity. You need to make space for it in your life.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

what a luxury it was for people to hold their loved ones whenever they wanted

There is convincing evidence that the search for solitude is not a luxury but a biological need. Just as humans posses a herding instinct that keeps us close to others most of the time, we also have a conflicting drive to seek out solitude. If the distance between ourselves and others becomes too great, we experience isolation and alienation, yet if the proximity to others becomes too close, we feel smothered and trapped.

Among the numerous luxuries of the table...coffee may be considered as one of the most valuable. It excites cheerfulness without intoxication; and the pleasing flow of spirits which it occasions...is never followed by sadness, languor or debility.

Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.

The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.

Greatness of spirit is to bear finely both good fourtune and bad, honor and disgrace, and not to think highly of luxury or attention or power or victories in contests, and to possess a certain depth and magnitude of spirit.

One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury

Forget luxury; as a great company you have to keep evolving.