Famous Quotes & Sayings

Trudi Canavan

Happy endings are a luxury of fiction

Wentworth Miller

A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support.

Samuel Richardson

What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before they are thirsty?

W. H. Auden

Cathedrals, luxury liners laden with souls, Holding to the east their hulls of stone.

Robert Orben

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.

William Graham Sumner

The millionaires are a product of natural selection ... the naturally selected agents of society for certain work. They get high wages and live in luxury, but the bargain is a good one for society.

Samuel Johnson

As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer. When so much general productive exertion is the consequence of luxury, the nation does not care though there are debtors; nay, they would not care though their creditors were there too.

Michael Fields

In the past we have been primarily a running team, but this year we've had the luxury of being able to do some more things.

Vicky Gunderson

I'm not saying it should be a luxury hotel, but we should treat them as worthy of being a person.

Juvenal

The traveler without money will sing before the robber. [Lat., Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.]

Richard P. Feynman

[B]eyond poverty, beyond the point that the material needs are reasonably satisfied, only from within is peace.

Samuel Johnson

He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.

W. S. Merwin

I offer you what I have my Poverty

Saint Augustine

All plenty which is not my God is poverty to me.

Walter Savage Landor

Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.

Walter Scott

Oh, poverty parts good company.

Samuel Johnson

The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.

Kay Granger

Foreign aid must be viewed as an investment, not an expense.

William Penn

Be rather bountiful, than expensive.

Henry Paulson

In the past, if a homeowner with a mortgage had a problem making the payment, often he'd get together with a lender and strike a deal, because foreclosures are very expensive to the lender and obviously not good for the homeowner and the community.

Louise Driver

I really think it will work well because the most expensive thing on the list is $4.50. So, if you felt you wanted to order, but didn't want to spend a lot, you could.

Nicholas Perna

This is more expensive than most of the rest of the state.

Roger Wagner

A nursing program is an expensive proposition to start and we'll be looking for help. It will take about $45,000 each year for three years.

Karl Pilkington

To be honest, marriage doesn't scare me and that, it's just once you've been together for so long, if you haven't got any kids it's just a big expensive day out for everyone else to enjoy, isn't it?

Nawal El Saadawi

I now knew that all of us were prostitutes who sold themselves at varying prices, and that an expensive prostitute was better than a cheap one.

Mayim Bialik

Sleeping with your child, wearing your child in a sling as opposed to pushing them around in expensive strollers, those are things that matter biologically and sociologically for the structure of a family.

Phyllis Bottome

To be in the right is often an expensive business.