A bedroom requires a bed. Everything else was extravagance. Well, he had a bed all right.
A bedroom requires a bed. Everything else was extravagance. Well, he had a bed all right.
Believe, if you will, that there may have been faults in our industrial system, yet the fact remains that the welfare of the average man has not so far advanced under any other form of government, and that whatever evil exists will not be corrected by delegating to government, with all its weaknesses, the authority to run and control all business and to control the daily lives and activities of laboring mankind. Nor will any existing waste and extravagance of government be eliminated or appreciably diminished until the average man realizes that the burden of paying its bills will, through direct or indirect taxation, ultimately fall upon him, his children or his children's children.
The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash, but then the country picked itself up again, and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it.
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.
It is appropriate here to quote Sir Charles Marston, a most intelligent 'critic of the critics,' who said that it is time we begin 'to recognize the extravagance of its criticism by the intellectuals underlying assumption, that what the critic did not know could not have been' (The Bible Comes Alive, New York Flemming H. Revell Company, 1947, p. 182.)
Extravagance is the luxury of the poor penury is the luxury of the rich.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.
It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
The finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model, and with the human race, but without miracle, without extravagance.
Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.
I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced. Extravagance it depends on how you are yarded.
An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.
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.
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.
Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.
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