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Allah loves moderation and hates extravagance and excess. — Umar

If extravagance were a fault, it would not have a place in the festivals of the gods. — Aristippus

Extravagance is considered self-indulgent and unnecessary. — Veronica Roth

You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I'm inclined to extravagance. — Tennessee Williams

Rock and roll allowed people to lie about themselves, and to be sanctified for the extravagance of their fictions. This — Steve Almond

Nature is mythical and mystical always, and works with the license and extravagance of genius. She has her luxurious and florid style as well as art. — Henry David Thoreau

Her purchases just about busted her vacation budget, but what else is a vacation for, if not for overindulgence and mindless extravagance? — Candace Schuler

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance. — Michel De Montaigne

Fashion's about extravagance, and everyone needs a bit of that. — Carine Roitfeld

Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly. — Plutarch

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. — Richard Whately

He that spends a Groat a day idly, spends idly above 6 l. a year, which is the Price of using 100 l. — Benjamin Franklin

Nature is a miserly accountant, grudging the pennies, watching the clock, punishing the smallest extravagance. — Richard Dawkins

Beauty is not extravagance; beauty is life. — Imelda Marcos

We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be. — Edwin Percy Whipple

I wish I could be a grandmother. It is wanton extravagance to have had a youth with no one to tell of it to when one grows old. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance. — Robert Silverberg

Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance. — Demosthenes

Your book bill ought to be your biggest extravagance. — C.S. Lewis

I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering. — Oscar Wilde

Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own — Sallust

The sage avoids extremity, excess, and extravagance. — Laozi

He who buys what he does not want ends in wanting what he cannot buy. — Alec-Tweedie

Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft. — Pericles

An extravagance is something you buy which is no earthly use to your wife. — Franklin P. Adams

The True Person avoids extremes, self-indulgence, and extravagance. — Laozi

My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure. — Ina Garten

Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich. — Oscar Wilde

Please sell $10,000 worth of stock - we have decided to lead a mad and extravagant life. — Harry Crosby

Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances; it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance. — Samuel Johnson

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand. — Lady Randolph Churchill

Hence the sage puts away excessive effort, extravagance, and easy indulgence. — Lao-Tzu

Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar. — Willa Cather

Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers. — Howard Hodgkin

They understand not only evil, it seemed, but the extravagance of tricks with which evil presents itself as good. — Donna Tartt

Considering the extravagance of my expectations, the flying experience was bound to be a disappointment. — Edna Robinson

No villainous bounty yet hath passed my heart;
Unwisely, not ignobly, have I given. — William Shakespeare

My only extravagance in life is my sailboat. I'm bonkers about that, but other than that, I don't spend money on myself. — Frank Gehry

In the material world, where everything is valued, when you commit yourself to God, beauty and love, it can be mistaken for extravagance. — Imelda Marcos

The extravagance of intellect outstrips the extravagance of desire. — Mason Cooley

For the right guy, a girl doesn't need extravagance. Just sincerity ~Jolie — Ronie Kendig

I believe that music should be grown on trees, to be plucked like a fruit without the extravagance of harvest. — Eyvind Kang

One great cause of the vanity, extravagance and idleness that are so fast growing upon our young ladies, is the absence of domestic education. — Lydia Maria Francis Child

Adultery is extravagance. — Maxine Hong Kingston

We pass our lives entirely in the search for extravagant adventures; and there is no extravagance with which we are not capable of sympathy — Robert Louis Stevenson

I would prefer a thousand mistakes in extravagance of love to any paralysis in wariness of fear. — Gerald May

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle - even if he can afford more. — Masaru Ibuka

Once upon a time, time was in the hands of the poor. Those who sensibly, reasonably, and firmly held it. Extravagance is only today and tomorrow. — Mona Adnan

every one" was out of town perhaps the servants, in the extravagance of their leisure, were profaning the tables. The heat was insufferable — Henry James

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance. — Charles Caleb Colton

I adore extravagance but I abhor waste. — Aaron Copland

Surely the weakness of our monarchy in Saudi Arabia is bound up in our addiction to extravagance. I fear it will be our undoing. — Jean Sasson

Horace Greeley pursues temperance to extravagance." Lord Acton — Harold Holzer

We all need the waters of the Mercy River. Though they don't run deep, there's usually enough, just enough, for the extravagance of our lives. — Jonis Agee

Self Government by extravagance and incompetence brings its own end. — Will Durant

But what was happiness but an extravagance, an impossible state to maintain, partly because it was so difficult to articulate? — Hanya Yanagihara

Extravagance was a political necessity. — Dan Jones

There is hope in extravagance, there is none in routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car. — Rachel Nichols

The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance. — Oscar Wilde

Vigorous societies harbor a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications. — Alfred North Whitehead

There does not exist any religious system, or supernatural extravagance, which is not founded on an ignorance of the laws of nature. — Marquis De Condorcet

Archetypes are universal, and, in subtle or extravagant ways, interchangeable. — Tanith Lee

Extravagance is the rich man's pitfall. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

It is not other people who inflict the worst disappointments, but the shock between reality and the extravagance of our imagination. — Helene Gremillon

The most extravagant thing I've ever bought is 95 tops all the same. — Chris Martin

The first sign of extravagance is to buy trousers that one does not need. — George Ade

The latter estimate is certainly an extravagant exaggeration — Helmut Schmid

The entire empire has sunk into a quagmire of extravagance from which they cannot extricate themselves. — Liu Cixin

The things we do at Christmas are touched with a certain extravagance, as beautiful, in some of its aspects, as the extravagance of nature in June. — Robert Collyer

Wealth comes from industry and from the hard experience of human toil. To dissipate it in waste and extravagance is disloyalty to humanity. — Calvin Coolidge

There are those who hold that to quibble over matters of taste in the basic necessities of life is an extravagance — Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

The whole point of extravagance is to act like a fool and feel like a fool, but enjoy it. — Alfred Bester

They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance ... But the truth will prevail. — Imelda Marcos

An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity. — Bernard Williams

Dangermouse has a detatched, five bedroom pillarbox in Mayfair - surely that's rather extravagant for a secret agent. — C.S. Woolley

Heavy rains and a good book. A perfect extravagance. — Carew Papritz

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work. — Virginia Woolf

Most people think of Las Vegas, and they think of extravagance. But it's really a mix between fantasy and laziness. — Gia Coppola

Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives. — Alfred North Whitehead