Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gideon Gono

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

George Bernard Shaw

Morals are a luxury of the rich.

You don't buy luxury to enter a community, but to set yourself apart from others.

Chris Hardwick

A big company is like trying to steer a luxury liner.

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

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.

Francis Ford Coppola

I like simplicity; I don't need luxury.

Francis Bacon

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Ernest Mandel

Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism.

Helen Keller

Hold out your hands to feel the luxury of the sunbeams.

George Eliot

In poor Rosamond's mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in.

It's something I didn't even think twice about. But I have the luxury because I own my own business.

A year ago I had the luxury of being able to project 90 percent of our lineup in the off-season.

Nick Saban

That's not a luxury that we have right now in this particular draft.

That's (full roster) a luxury we haven't had in so long.

Joe Orton

Every luxury was lavished on you - atheism, breast-feeding, circumcision. I had to make my own way.

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

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.

Evan Sayet

Stupidity is a luxury and you will find time and time and time and again that those who are overwhelmingly on the left are those who can afford to be.

H. Rap Brown

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

Jay Leno

In spite of the poor economy, almost 70 percent of Americans occasionally splurge on luxury items -- like a blanket on a plane, or a peanut.

Joseph Joubert

All luxury corrupts either the morals or the taste.

Myles Munroe

You need to treat your finances as a resource God has provided to fulfill your vision, not a tool to fill your life with luxuries

Milton Friedman

Rich people are the experimental ground for every new development. The nature of progress is that what begins as a luxury for the rich becomes a necessity for the poor as it's developed and passed on.

Karen Walker

You never really know if it's going to happen or not do you but the vision was always for [Karen Walker] to be a global niche luxury product.

Giorgio Armani

From the elitism of luxury to the democracy of beauty.

Giorgio Armani

Luxury is obviously the direction that interests me the most, but there is a lot of confusion between luxury and exhibitionism. For me, the concept of luxury is more traditional, more exclusive, more sophisticated than luxury for the masses.

Harry S Truman

Too many?pass judgement on wartime decisions in the luxury of a peacetime environment.

Gary Hamel

Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions of transactions.

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.

Isaac Disraeli

An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age.