Luxury Quotes - Page 7

• We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Motivational, Happiness

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• Today, luxury resides in everything that is becoming rare: communion with nature, silence, meditation, slowness rediscovered, the pleasure of living out of step with others, studious idleness, the enjoyment of the major works of the mind–these are all privileges that cannot be bought because they are literally priceless.

  Pascal Bruckner

  Nature, Silence, Meditation

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• In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

  Enid Bagnold

  Inspirational, Marriage, Wedding

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• Luxury is more deadly than any foe.

  Juvenal

  Enjoyment, Foe

  Juvenal (1940). “Juvenal and Persius”

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• If you start to find that kind of luxury as a normal thing, you don't belong in the real world.

  Ruud van Nistelrooy

  Sports, Real, World

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• Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things

  Benjamin Franklin

  Avarice Greed, Want, Poverty

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.

  Arthur Helps

  Funny, Money, Advice

  Sir Arthur Helps (1871). “Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms”, p.181

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• It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.

  Emile Durkheim

  Men, Class, Comfort

  John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). “Suicide”, p.298, Simon and Schuster

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• Poetry is not a luxury.

  Audre Lorde

  Poetry Is

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.11, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The more we count the blessings we have, the less we crave the luxuries we haven't.

  William Arthur Ward

  Appreciation, Blessing, Havens

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• Are you sure self-pity is a luxury you can afford, Jack?

  Stephen King

  Self, Self Pity, Pity

  Stephen King (2008). “The Shining”, p.241, Anchor

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• We Americans are the most lavish and showiest and most luxury loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen.

  Mark Twain

  People, Flags, World

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• Luxury, so far as it reaches the people, will do good to the race of people; it will strengthen and multiply them. Sir, no nation was ever hurt by luxury; for, as I said before; it can reach but a very few.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hurt, Race, People

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.200

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• Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

  Henri Rousseau

  Prosperity, Rich, Poor

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• Friendship is one of the greatest luxuries of life.

  Edward Everett Hale

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• I always thought I should be treated like a star.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Success, Confidence, Stars

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• If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another's.

  O. Henry

  Atmosphere, Pay, Ifs

  O. Henry (1995). “100 Selected Stories”, p.115, Wordsworth Editions

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• Most of the trades, professions, and ways of living among mankind, take their original either from the love of the pleasure, or the fear of want. The former, when it becomes too violent, degenerates into luxury, and the latter into avarice.

  Joseph Addison

  Work, Way, Degenerates

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1852). “The Spectator”, p.65

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• To me, the nicest luxury would be to have a room where I could keep all my books in one place - and have space for more.

  Annabelle Selldorf

  Book, Space, Would Be

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• The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Essentials, Needs

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• To be able to do art, it was a luxury to me.

  Anchee Min

  Art, Able

  "A 'Cooked Seed' Sprouts After All, In America". Interview with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. May 12, 2013.

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• Negative thinking is always expensive--dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically--hence I refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury.

  Peter McWilliams

  Men, Thinking, Negative

  Peter McWilliams (1995). “Love 101: to love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance”

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• The ancients were destitute of many of the conveniences of life which have been invented or improved by the progress of industry; and the plenty of glass and linen has diffused more real comforts among the modern nations of Europe than the senators of Rome could derive from all the refinements of pompous or sensual luxury.

  Edward Gibbon

  Real, Glasses, Rome

  Edward Gibbon (1846). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.106

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• We all have the luxury of looking out for ourselves. Leaders also have the honor of looking out for others.

  Simon Sinek

  Leader, Honor

  Twitter post from Nov 12, 2014

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• Fashion is not a luxury, it's a right

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Fashion

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