Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Austen

Let us have the luxury of silence.

Andrew Carnegie

Capitalism is about turning luxuries into necessities.

Simon Cowell

What luxury would I take to a desert island? A mirror. It's true. I'd miss me.

Rachel Cohn

But, you see, that's the luxury of being a lout - you get to be selective about when you care and when you don't. The rest of us get stuck when your care goes shallow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's a luxury to be understood.

Lady Gaga

You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.

Karl Lagerfeld

Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.

Judith Thurman

Insecurity, however, is a luxury on which I never economize.

Elizabeth Gaskell

It had been a royal time of luxury to him, with all its stings and contumelies, compared to the poverty that crept round and clipped the anticipation of the future down to sordid fact, and life without an atmosphere of either hope or fear.

The whole town laughed at my great-grandfather, just because he worked hard and saved his money. True, working at the hardware store didn't pay much, but he felt it was better than what everybody else did, which was go up to the volcano and collect the gold nuggets it shot out every day. It turned out he was right. After forty years, the volcano petered out. Everybody left town, and the hardware store went broke. Finally he decided to collect gold nuggets too, but there weren't many left by then. Plus, he broke his leg and the doctor's bills were real high.

P. J. O'Rourke

When you pay a hospital bill, you're really paying two hospital bills - one bill for you because you have a job and/or insurance and can pay the hospital. and another bill, which is tacked onto your bill, to cover the medical expenses of someone who doesn't have a job and/or insurance and can't pay the hospital.

Ann Richards

If you can't fill the till, then don't pass the bill.

Ray Comfort

I don't blame Bill Maher for mocking religion. I can see why he took the trouble to make the movie. In one sense, it's overdue.

Val Kilmer

There was no one around called 'Val' when I was young, so I wanted to be John or Bill. Now I like it.

J. K. Rowling

Bill, don’t look at me — I’m ’ideous.

David Stout

The next time the bills come, I'm really going to have to think a lot about even paying it. I'm just so tempted to just rough it and go without.

Heather Murphy

That's so people don't get walloped with gigantic, unmanageable bills when they need the heat.

Liz Compton

Taking care of your bills is an important thing. But there are some things that people need to know.