LUXURY

Related Subjects: Comfort, Delicacy, Jewel, Leisure, Pleasure, Riches

1. Too much plenty makes mouth dainty.—FRANKLIN, Poor Richard
   

2. What will not Luxury taste? Earth, sea, and air,
   Are daily ransacked for the bill of fare!—JOHN GAY, Trivia
   

3. O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree!—GOLDSMITH, The Deserted Village
   

4. We can do without any article of luxury we have never had; but when once obtained, it is not in human natur' to surrender it voluntarily.—T. C. HALLIBURTON, The Clockmaker
   

5. There is a limit to luxury.—ELBERT HUBBARD, The Philistine
   

6. Luxury is like a wild beast, first made fiercer with tying and then let loose.—MONTAIGNE, Essays

7. Impatient of a scene whose luxuries stole,
   Spite of himself, too deep into his soul.—THOMAS MOORE, Lalla Rookh
   

8. Fell luxury! more perilous to youth
   Than storms or quicksands, poverty or chains.—HANNAH MORE, Belshazzar

9. Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.—J. L. MOTLEY

10. It is the superfluous things for which men sweat.—SENECA, Epistulae ad Lucilium
    

11. Falsely luxurious! will not man awake?—JAMES THOMSON, The Seasons
    

12. 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.—THOREAU, Walden
    

13. The superfluous, a very necessary thing.—VOLTAIRE, Le Mondain