Quotes by Extravagance I believe that music should be grown on trees, to be plucked like a fruit without the extravagance of harvest. Eyvind Kang extravagancetreebelieve An extravagance is something you buy which is no earthly use to your wife. Franklin P. Adams extravagancewifesex The first sign of extravagance is to buy trousers that one does not need. George Ade extravagancedoeneeds I would prefer a thousand mistakes in extravagance of love to any paralysis in wariness of fear. Gerald May extravagancethousandmistake Thrift is the really romantic thing; economy is more romantic than extravagance... thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste... if a man could undertake to make use of all the things in his dustbin, he would be a broader genius than Shakespeare. Gilbert K. Chesterton extravagancecreativemen 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. H. P. Lovecraft extravagancemeanideas The latter estimate is certainly an extravagant exaggeration Helmut Schmid exaggerationlatterextravagance Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers. Howard Hodgkin extravagancetoo-muchway In the material world, where everything is valued, when you commit yourself to God, beauty and love, it can be mistaken for extravagance. Imelda Marcos beauty-and-loveextravaganceworld Beauty is not extravagance; beauty is life. Imelda Marcos 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. Laozi extravagancehumilitymen The sage avoids extremity, excess, and extravagance. Laozi taoismexcessextravagance The True Person avoids extremes, self-indulgence, and extravagance. Laozi extravaganceselfinspirational 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. Lewis H. Lapham extravagancepeculiarflesh The unparalleled extravagance of English rule has demented the rajas and the maharajas who, unmindful of consequences, ape it and grind their subjects to dust. Mahatma Gandhi extravaganceindiadust Extravagance is the rich man's pitfall. Martin Farquhar Tupper pitfallsextravagancemen The extravagance of intellect outstrips the extravagance of desire. Mason Cooley excessextravagancedesire Adultery is extravagance. Maxine Hong Kingston adulteryinfidelityextravagance Perhaps, in the extravagance of youth, we give away our devotions easily and all but arbitrarily, on the mistaken assumption that we’ll always have more to give. Michael Cunningham youthextravagancegiving The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance. Michel de Montaigne extravagancemiraclelife«1234»
