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“I never had a fondness for gems or the extravagance of Harry Winston or Van Cleef & Arpels. I've always liked the more flamboyant, imaginative things. I lusted after costume jewelry. My husband was a very lucky man.”

Men Lucky Husband My Husband Costumes Imaginative Vans Jewelry Gems Extravagance Fondness Flamboyant Lucky Man

Author:Iris Apfel

“The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.”

Life Common Opinion Models Miracle Finest Extravagance

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle - even if he can afford more.”

Ifs Men Life Should Believe I Believe Enjoy Simple Pleasure Should Have Lifestyle Simple Life Extravagance Small Pleasures

Author:Masaru Ibuka

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

Office Management Rewards Corporate Shareholders Extravagance Reluctance

Author:Peter Lynch

“The True Person avoids extremes, self-indulgence, and extravagance.”

Inspirational Persons Self Extremes Indulgence Extravagance Self Indulgence True Person

Author:Laozi

“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.”

Kind Littles Interest Atheism Fashion Aim Currents Precise Condemnation Extravagance Gallant

Author:David Bentley Hart

“Extravagant love is never wasted.”

Love Is Inspirational Love Passionate Love Extravagant Extravagance

Author:Bob Goff

“Do you know of any more overwhelming and humbling expression for God's condescension and extravagance towards us human beings than that He places Himself, so to say, on the same level of choice with the world, just so that we may be able to choose; that God, if language dare speak thus, woos humankind - that He, the eternally strong one, woos sapless humanity? Yet, how insignificant is the young lover's choice between her pursuers by comparison with this choice between God and the world.”

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

Needs Bits Fashion Extravagance

Author:Carine Roitfeld

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

Mistake Thousand Extravagance Paralysis

Author:Gerald May

“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.”

“No one as yet has approached the management of New York in a proper spirit; that is to say, regarding it as the shiftless outcome of squalid barbarism and reckless extravagance. No one is likely to do so, because reflections on the long narrow pig-trough are construed as malevolent attacks against the spirit and majesty of the American people, and lead to angry comparisons.”

People Long Spirit New York Reflection Management Angry Outcomes Comparison Pigs Majesty Reckless Barbarism Extravagance Trough

Book:Delphi Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)

“When I compare life to a dream I do not mean to denigrate it as some sort of meaningless fantasy. Life is too wonderful to be called an "illusion" unless we whisper the word in amazement, as we might when witnessing the most astonishing magic trick. What could be more magnificent than this glorious universe, in all its multifarious extravagance? Its awesome vastness and delicate detail. Its impersonal precision and intimate intensity. Its harsh necessities and lush sensuality. This dream of life is truly marvelous.”

“An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.”

Thinking Spirit Extravagance

Author:Bernard Williams

“Beauty is not extravagance; beauty is life.”

Author:Imelda Marcos

“There was one bursting now, a delicate constellation of many-coloured stars which drifted down and lingered in the still air.... The final rocket went up, a really large one, a piece of reckless extravagance. Its sibilant uprush was impressive, dragonlike; it soared twice as high as any they had had before.... The sparks from the rocket came pouring down the sky in a slow golden cascade, vanishing one by one into a lake of darkness.”

“Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.”

Wish Too Much Bread Useless Dry Superfluous Extravagant Extravagance Dine

Book:Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“We deny that it is fun to be saving. It is fun to be prodigal. Go to the butterfly, thou parsimonious sluggard; consider her ways and get wise.”

Way Fun Wise Deny Saving Butterfly Extravagance Prodigals

Book:Nods and Becks

Source: Nods and Becks

“I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth, which we value, are ubiquitous and blind, that life itself is so astonishingly cheap, that nature is as careless as it is bountiful, and that with extravagance goes a crushing waste that will one day include our own cheap lives.”

Knows Values Growth Atheism Birth One Day Waste Evidence Blind Positive Atheism Crush Careless Extravagance

Author:Annie Dillard

“As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer. When so much general productive exertion is the consequence of luxury, the nation does not care though there are debtors; nay, they would not care though their creditors were there too.”

People Doe Made Matter Care Suffering Individual Nations Consequence Luxury Productive Excess Ruined Exertion Extravagance Creditors Debtors

Book:Dr. Johnson's Table-talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners, with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Mr. Boswell's Life of Johnson

Source: Dr. Johnson's Table-talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners, with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Mr. Boswell's Life of Johnson

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

Different Cities Poverty Appearance Concealed Extravagance Splendour Large Cities

Book:Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings

Source: Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings

“The vigour of civilised societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth while. Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications. All strong interests easily become impersonal, the love of a good job well done. There is a sense of harmony about such an accomplishment, the Peace brought by something worth while. Such personal gratification arises from aim beyond personality.”

“The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of it, is this-they throw it away as soon as they get it on the first whim or extravagance that strikes them, and have nothing left to meet ordinary expenses or discharge old debts.”

People Want Firsts Left Money Deals Secret Ordinary Difficulty Debt Strikes Expenses Whim Extravagance Discharge

Book:Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].

Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].

“Enhancement not only allows the possibilities of a healthy fullness and exuberance, but of a rather ominous extravagance, aberration, monstrosity ... This danger is built into the very nature of growth and life. Growth can become over-growth, life 'hyper-life' ... The paradox of an illness which can present as wellness - as a wonderful feeling of health and well-being, and only later reveal its malignant potentials - is one of the chimaeras, tricks and ironies of nature.”