Famous Quotes & Sayings

Golda Meir

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

Gideon Gono

Those who want luxury cars should buy them at market rates and not ... abuse public funds.

Euripides

It makes little difference to the dead, if they are buried in the tokens of luxury. It is but an empty glorification left for those who live.

It's a luxury to have that type of player.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Luxury and excessive refinement are sure forerunners of the decadence of states, because when all individuals seek their own interests they neglect the public weal.

Ian Mcewan

The luxury of being half-asleep, exploring the fringes of psychosis in safety.

Ethan Hawke

All that stuff with the tabloids is a kind of luxury tax I pay for all the good things I do in my life.

Ernestine Rose

there is ten times more in the world than would maintain all in yet unknown luxury. Yet how much misery there is in our midst; not because there is not enough, but owing to the misdirection of it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

Better freedom with a crust, than slavery with every luxury.

Plutarch

Poverty is dishonorable, not in itself, but when it is a proof of laziness, intemperance, luxury, and carelessness; whereas in a person that is temperate, industrious, just and valiant, and who uses all his virtues for the public good, it shows a great and lofty mind.

Mike Fitzpatrick

Back then, the excise tax was designed to be a luxury tax for people who owned telephones.

John Adams

Will you tell me how to prevent riches from producing luxury? Will you tell me how to prevent luxury from producing effeminacy, intoxication, extravagance, vice and folly?

George Bancroft

Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.

Subcomandante Marcos

... the photographer is a thief who chooses what he steals (which, at this stage of the crisis, is a luxury) and does not democratize the image, that is to say, the photographer selects the pictures, a privilege which ought to be granted to the person being photographed.

Stirling Moss

If everything is under control you are just not driving fast enough.

Jimmy Carter

Our values are not luxuries, but necessities. They are not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.

Paulo Coelho

If theater is ritual, then dance is too... It's as if the threads connecting us to the rest of the world were washed clean of preconceptions and fears. When you dance, you can enjoy the luxury of being you.

Terence Stamp

It's such a performance to bring stuff into America. It's a great luxury when I am in England.

Terence McKenna

In a sense, what's happening is that the unconscious mind is a luxury the human species cannot afford at this point in our dilemma, and so the unconscious mind is simply rising into consciousness by being hardwired into this global infrastructure.

Terence McKenna

The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.

George Crabbe

He tried the luxury of doing good.

Marcel Proust

If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.

Joseph Addison

We see the pernicious effects of luxury in the ancient Romans, who immediately found themselves poor as soon as this vice got footing among them.

Kenneth Clark

The recognized achievements of some Negroes, despite rigid racial barriers, indicate that society by its prejudices may be depriving itself of valuable contributions from many others. It is now doubtful whether America can afford the luxury of such a waste of human resources.

Khaled Hosseini

Perspective [is] a luxury when your head [is] constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons.

Jimmy Hoffa

A slab of bread "buttered" with lard and, if you were lucky, seasoned with salt and pepper, was a luxury.

Manolo Blahnik

The greatest luxury is being free.

John Gay

The luxury of doing good surpasses every other personal enjoyment.

Edward Bellamy

When you come to analyze the love of money which was the general impulse to effort in your day, you find that the dread of want and desire of luxury was but one of several motives which the pursuit of money represented; the others, and with many the more influential, being desire of power, of social position, and reputation for ability and success.

Hermann Hesse

It is a pity that you students aren't fully aware of the luxury and abundance in which you live.

John F. Kerry

I've often said that global climate change is an issue where no one has the luxury of being "half-pregnant." You either are or you aren't. And so it is with climate change. You either understand and accept the science - or you don't. Folks this isn't a cafeteria where you can pick and choose and accept the science that tells us what is happening, but then reject the science that warns us what will happen.

John Calvin

The Lord has not redeemed you so you might enjoy pleasures and luxuries or so that you might abandon yourself to ease and indolence, but rather so you should be prepared to endure all sorts of evils.