Quotes
Quotes about Luxury
The greatest luxury of riches is, that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.
Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
Luxury is the first, second and third cause of the ruin of republics. It is the vampire which soothes us into a fatal slumber while it sucks the lifeblood of our veins.
Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.
On the soft bed of luxury most kingdoms have expired.
War destroys men, but luxury destroys mankind; at once corrupts the body and the mind.
Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury--to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for every one, best for both the body and the mind.
Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.
For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the Axisâan American decision that this is sport, or that it is business. - The American Character.
I will touch My mouth unto the leaves, caressingly; And so wilt thou. Thus, from these lips of mine My message will go kissingly to thine, With more than Fancy's load of luxury, And prove a true love-letter.
One must be poor to know the luxury of living.
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 contest between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.
There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast.
A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
Man is a luxury loving animal. Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, sluggish creature, barely energetic enough to obtain a bare subsistence. A society becomes stagnant when its people are too rational or too serious to be tempted by baubles.
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity.
Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice-- The weakness and the wickedness of luxury-- The negligence--the apathy--the evils Of sensual sloth--produces ten thousand tyrants, Whose delegated cruelty surpasses The worst acts of one energetic master, However harsh and hard in his own bearing.
Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times. [Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum.
