Extravagant Quotes

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Wise, Angry, Sick

There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes - seize it, don't miss it.
Max Lucado

Love, Time, Miss

People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
Imelda Marcos

Beauty, Tell, Wants

I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
Imelda Marcos

Life, Beauty, God

But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.
Charles Ives

Music, Hope, May

A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
William Shenstone

Rich, Poor, Grows

What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?
William Law

Night, Studying, Silly

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.
Chester A. Arthur

Money, Evil, Public

I love giving gifts and I love receiving them. I really like giving little kids extravagant gifts. You see their little faces light up and they get excited. If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands.
Gina Gershon

Love, Good, Giving

I'm not a loud, extravagant person; I'm never going to be that and, to be honest, I don't want to be like that.
Leona Lewis

Person, Honest, Loud

All my books started out as extravagant and ended up pure and plain.
Annie Dillard

Started, Books, Pure

Living modestly in a suburban neighborhood while trying to support four children through private school is not extravagant or living large.
Marlee Matlin

School, Children, Through

The capacity for extravagant emotion that my husband finds so attractive in me can be exhausting, especially to a child. My moods are mercurial, and this can be terrifying. I know, because I was a daughter of a mother with a changeable temperament.
Ayelet Waldman

Mother, Husband, Child

I never wanted to be the most famous, the most beautiful, the most extravagant.
Manolo Blahnik

Famous, Beautiful, Wanted

I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.
Andrew Motion

Beautiful, Person, Her

My father had his own business, a clothing store, which he inherited from his father. He travelled abroad frequently and was quite extravagant, so we had skiing holidays and summer holidays on the beach.
Britt Ekland

Business, Father, Quite

We each own one car, and we have a reasonable house. It's a lovely place to be, but it's not extravagant.
Reese Witherspoon

Car, Place, Lovely

As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws.
David Brainerd

Faith, Practice, Among

I lived in a studio apartment until my mid-30s. I don't have an extravagant lifestyle.
Craig Kilborn

Until, Lifestyle, Lived

I love the feeling of having as close to a steady job as you can ever have as an actor. I'm not an extravagant spender, so when I work on a TV show for a season or do a bunch of episodes as a reoccurring, I try to spread the money that comes from that out so that I can do these movies that are important to me.
Jason Ritter

Love, Work, Money

Most of the comedies I've done have been rather farcical and extravagant.
Kevin Kline

Done, Rather, Comedies

I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest - or without.
Edward Weston

Work, Best, Matter

As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.
Rachel Zoe

Remember, Rather, Far

Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.
Ralph Peters

Legal, Why, Question

Everybody thinks about Bo Derek as being this extravagant looking lady but she is also a wonderful actress.
Wayne Rogers

Wonderful, She, Looking

Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.
Anna Garlin Spencer

Age, Ignorance, Human

My parents were very well-off, but we didn't have a crazy-huge house. We didn't have thousands of workers and staff; it was just my mum doing the majority of the housework. We didn't have nannies. I wasn't brought up in any sort of extravagant way.
Petra Ecclestone

Parents, House, Majority

I don't go out and get arrested anymore. The most extravagant thing I do these days is play golf. I'm like an old man.
Brad Renfro

Play, Old, Days

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