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  • Your book bill ought to be your biggest extravagance.

  • 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.

  • In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth.

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

    'Catiline' ch. 5
  • The best results in the operation of a government wherein every citizen has a share largely depend upon a proper limitation of the purely partisan zeal and effort and a correct appreciation of the time when the heat of the partisan should be merged in the patriotism of the citizen. ... At this hour the animosities of political strife, the bitterness of partisan defeat, and the exultation of partisan triumph should be supplanted by an ungrudging acquiescence in the popular will and a sober, conscientious concern for the general weal. ... Public extravagance begets extravagance among the people.

    Grover Cleveland (1909). “Addresses, State Papers and Letters”
  • I've always led a pretty simple life, with few extravagances. The money in tennis never drove me.

  • 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.

    Men   Hands   Laughing  
    William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.141, Simon and Schuster
  • We can never put ourselves in the shoes of children; we cannot fathom their thoughts, we lend them ours; and always following ourown reasoning, we stuff their heads with extravagance and error.

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

    Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.187, Wordsworth Editions
  • It may be affirmed, without extravagance, that the free institutions we enjoy, have developed the powers, and improved the condition, of our whole people, beyond any example in the world.

    Abraham Lincoln, Terence Ball (2013). “Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches”, p.135, Cambridge University Press
  • Fashion's about extravagance, and everyone needs a bit of that.

  • I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.

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

    Willa Cather, Marilee Lindemann (2008). “O Pioneers!”, p.173, Oxford University Press
  • I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.

    Oscar Wilde (1962). “The letters of Oscar Wilde”
  • We all need the waters of the Mercy River. Though they don't run deep, there's usually enough, just enough, for the extravagance of our lives.

    Running   Rivers   Water  
    Jonis Agee (1991). “Sweet eyes”, Crown Pub
  • I've spent as much as 30 grand on a watch but it's not about flaunting my wealth. I don't have many extravagances but watches are my biggest one. I must have 30 of them now. I've been collecting since the age of nine, when I won a black TAG in a karting event.

    Black   Age   Events  
  • Profuseness is a cruel and crafty demon, that gradually involves her followers in dependence and debt; that is, fetters them with irons that enter into their souls.

  • The things we do at Christmas are touched with a certain extravagance, as beautiful, in some of its aspects, as the extravagance of nature in June.

    Robert Collyer (1877). “The Simple Truth: A Home Book”
  • Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.

    Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.288, Simon and Schuster
  • Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

  • I adore extravagance but I abhor waste.

    "Aaron Copland: the Life and Work of an Uncommon Man". Book by Howard Pollack, 1999.
  • You've never had a hamburger before?" asks Christine, her eyes wide. "No," I say. "Is that what it's called?" "Stiffs eat plain food," Four says, nodding at Christina. "Why?" she asks. I shrug. "Extravagance is considered self-indulgent and unnecessary." She smirks. "No wonder you left." "Yeah," I say,rolling my eyes. "It was just because of the food." The corner of Four's mouth twitches.

    Eye   Self   Rolling  
  • It is not without trepidation that I have appropriated the codes of the Sublime and the Picturesque in my work. After all, serious photographers have spent most of this century trying to expunge such extravagances from their art. The tradition lives on, mostly in calendars and picture postcards. I was challenged to rework and revitalize that which had been so roundly denigrated.

    Art   Sublime   Trying  
  • Mansions once Knew their own masters, and laborious hinds, That had surviv'd the father, serv'd the son. Now the legitimate and rightful lord Is but a transient guest, newly arrived, And soon to be supplanted. He that saw His patrimonial timber cast its leaf, Sells the last scantling, and transfers the price To some shrewd sharper ere it buds again. Estates are landscapes, gazed upon awhile, Then advertised and auctioneer'd away.

    Father   Son   Bud  
    William Cowper (1828). “The Poems of William Cowper”, p.227
  • Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.

    Beautiful   Squash   Mind  
    Funeral Oration, Athens, 430 B.C., in Thucydides 'History of the Peloponnesian War' ii.40, 1 (translation by Rex Warner)
  • An extravagance is something you buy which is no earthly use to your wife.

    Sex   Wife   Extravagance  
  • 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.

  • The obscurity, incredibility and obscenity, so conspicuous in many parts of it, would justly condemn the works of a modern writer. It contains a mixture of inconsistency and contradiction; to call which the word of God, is the highest pitch of extravagance: it is to attribute to the deity that which any person of common sense would blush to confess himself the author of.

  • The current fashion in belligerent atheism usually involves flinging condemnation around with a kind of gallant extravagance, more or less in the direction of all faiths at once, with little interest in precise aim.

  • No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order.

    Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1934, Volume 3”, p.420, Best Books on
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