Where there is no extravagance there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding.
The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense corrupts the purest souls.
He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.
An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.
Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.
It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty.
Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
The world abhors closeness, and all but admires extravagance; yet a slack hand shows weakness, and a tight hand strength.
The finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model, and with the human race, but without miracle, without extravagance.
My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -- it gives a lovely light!
That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which he can afford to lose.
He who buys what he needs not, sells what he needs.
If extravagance were a fault, it would not have a place in the festivals of the gods.
The prodigality of millionaires is comparable only to their greed of gain. Let some whim or passion seize them and money is of no account. In fact these Croesuses find whims and passions harder to come by than gold.
There is hope in extravagance, there is none in routine.
Profuseness is a cruel and crafty demon, that gradually involves her followers in dependence and debt; that is, fetters them with irons that enter into their souls.
Wisdom seldom consorts with extravagance.
A large retinue upon a small income, like a large cascade upon a small stream, tends to discover its tenuity.
Prodigality is indeed the vice of a weak nature, as avarice is of a strong one; it comes of a weak craving for those blandishments of the world which are easily to be had for money.
Expense of time is the most costly of all expenses.
Extravagance is the rich man's pitfall.
Extremes meet and there is no better example than the haughtiness of humility.
In everything the middle course is best: All things in excess bring trouble to men.
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