Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
Quotes about luxurious (16 Quotes)
The big men and women of government live in a safe and luxurious bubble and have no idea what ordinary South Africans go through every day.
The Queen Mary was the most civilized and luxurious way one could travel to America in the late 1930s.
Back yards are being transformed into luxurious extensions of the house. They're the new favorite room to relax, entertain, and cook. And the heart and soul of the backyard resort area is the concrete patio.
It's too hard a life for me. I could only do it - check out in that sense - if I checked out somewhere that was luxurious and within hailing distance of civilization.
Everyone wants to drive a luxury brand even if it's not a particularly luxurious vehicle.
Pray, Mr. Abernethy, what is a cure for gout ' was the question of an indolent and luxurious citizen. 'Live upon sixpence a day and earn it,' was the cogent reply.
At the height of the bubble people used to go to expensive and luxurious restaurants, to drink a lot of tremendously expensive champagne.
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
A creature's pleasures are extravagant and luxurious sunk in lust and looking for pleasure, men undergo (again and again) birth and decay.
To spend several days in a friend's house and hunger for something to read, while you are treading on costly carpets, and sitting upon luxurious chairs and sleeping upon down, is as if one were bribing your body for the sake of cheating your mind
Many executives, particularly those of Pottruck's age and tax bracket, would simply have retired, using that competitive fire to improve their handicaps. But for Pottruck, the best coping strategy was simply to charge ahead, to believe that what came next was just as important as what had come before. By September, he had settled into luxurious new offices (paid for by Schwab as part of his severance agreement) that overlooked San Francisco's Embarcadero, just 10 blocks from Schwab's offices. There is going to be mourning, ... but successful people let go of the past as quickly as they can. You can't mourn at the same time you have a new beginning because it drags the new beginning down.
I love to take things that are everyday and comforting and make them into the most luxurious things in the world.
Among all the modernized aspects of the most luxurious of industries, the model, a vestige of voluptuous barbarianism, is like some plunder-laden prey. She is the object of unbridled regard, a living bait, the passive realization of an ideal. No other female occupation contains such potent impulses to moral disintegration as this one, applying as it does the outward signs of riches to a poor and beautiful girl.
Life in the country teaches one that the really stimulating things are the quiet, natural things, and the really wearisome things are the noisy, unnatural things. It is more exciting to stand still than to dance. Silence is more eloquent than speech. Water is more stimulating than wine. Fresh air is more intoxicating than cigarette smoke. Sunlight is more subtle than electric light. The scent of grass is more luxurious than the most expensive perfume. The slow, simple observations of the peasant are more wise than the most sparkling epigrams of the latest wit.
Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves.