| "Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world." »Cesare Pavese |
| "luxury is more deadly than any foe." »Juvenal |
| "One must be poor to know the luxury of giving." »George Eliot |
| "A family, although not a necessity, is the ultimate luxury." »Eric Pio |
| "Literature is a luxury fiction is a necessity." »G. K. Chesterton |
| "When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation." »Cherrie Moraga |
| "Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent." »Plato |
| "Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. We're not giving up. We're waiting for a better opportunity to win." »Lois McMaster Bujold |
| "We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about." »Charles Kingsley |
| "Only cat lovers know the luxury of fur-coated, musical hot water bottles that never go cold." »Susanne Millen |
| "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 |
| "Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it." »Ted Morgan |
| "All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire |
| "Times of luxury do not last long, but pass away very quickly nothing in this world can be long enjoyed." »Buddha |
| "There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution." »Oscar Wilde |
| "There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us." »Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde |
| "We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. ... We have truly entered the century of the educated man." »Lyndon B. Johnson |
| "The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible." »Albert Einstein |
| "The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert, and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them the mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night." »Jean Baudrillard |
| "For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the Axis -- an American decision that this is sport, or that it is business." »D. W. Brogan |
| "To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich, to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never, in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, this is to be my symphony." »William Ellery Channing |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
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