EXTRAVAGANCE

Related Subjects: Exaggeration, Excess, Prodigality, Waste

1. The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense, corrupts the purest souls.—FENELON
   

2. Laws cannot prevent extravagance; and this perhaps is not always an evil to the public. A shilling spent idly by a fool may be picked up by a wiser person. who knows better what to do with it; it is, therefore, not lost.—FRANKLIN
   

3. He calls his extravagance, generosity; and his trusting everybody, universal Benevolence.—GOLDSMITH, The Good-Natur'd Man
   

4. He that is extravagant will soon become poor, and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.—SAMUEL JOHNSON
   

5. He that runs out by extravagancy, must retrieve by parsimony.—Proverb
   

6. Prodigality is the vice of a weak nature, as avarice is of a strong one. It comes of a weak craving for those blandishments of the world which are easily had for money.—SIR HENRY TAYLOR
   

7. Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses.—THEOPHRASTUS
   

8. 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