On the soft bed of luxury most
kingdoms have expired.
?Edward Young
The saddest thing I can imagine
is to get used to luxury.
?Charlie Chaplin
Most of the luxuries and many of the
so-called comforts of life are not only
not indispensable, but positive hindrances
to the elevation of mankind.
?Henry David Thoreau
Luxury ruins republics;
poverty, monarchies.
?Charles De Montesquieu
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
?George Eliot
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything
is a luxury, starting with being in the world.
?Cesare Pavese
The greatest luxury of riches is, that they
enable you to escape so much good advice.
?Arthur Helps
Give us the luxuries of life, and we
will dispense with its necessaries.
?John L. Motley
The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of
giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.
?Leontyne Price
Anger is an expensive luxury in which
only men of certain income can indulge.
?George William Curtis
