People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.
To be extravagant you need money. True. But you do not need your own money.
A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
I am sorry to tell you that I am getting very extravagant and spending all my money: and what is worse for you, I have been spending yours too.
Men are divided between those who are as thrifty as if they would live forever, and those who are as extravagant as if they were going to die the next day.
Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is precisely because they do consult the opinion of their own little world that such things take place at all, and strike the great world dumb with amazement.
There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes - seize it, don't miss it.
If it's darkness we're having, let it be extravagant.
Archetypes are universal, and, in subtle or extravagant ways, interchangeable.
A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.
I don't know how to overcome this perception that I'm extravagant.
But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.
Everybody thinks about Bo Derek as being this extravagant looking lady but she is also a wonderful actress.
The most extravagant thing I've ever bought is 95 tops all the same.
We each own one car, and we have a reasonable house. It's a lovely place to be, but it's not extravagant.
What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?
The capacity for extravagant emotion that my husband finds so attractive in me can be exhausting, especially to a child. My moods are mercurial, and this can be terrifying. I know, because I was a daughter of a mother with a changeable temperament.
I think people have come to expect that in artistic representation; that every work of art should be a work of extravagant hope.
Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.
Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
God's extravagant generosity toward us compels us to be extravagantly generous toward others.
If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands.
Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.
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