Luxuries Quotes

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
Dalai Lama

Love, Humanity, Cannot

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.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Positive, Mankind

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Life, Give, Willingly

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.
John Keats

Death, Two, Same

It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.
Garrison Keillor

Down, Hear, Coming

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.
Robert Orben

Time, History, True

You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.
Brad Garrett

Life, Happiness, Smile

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.
Cher

Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?
Margaret Atwood

Books, Lucky, Generation

My background wasn't one blessed with all the luxuries in life. Nothing is forever and I realize that.
Junior Seau

Life, Blessed, Nothing

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
Agnes Repplier

Spring, Said, Wants

It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character.
Alfred Marshall

Character, While, Less

Playing Christ, I began to feel shut away from the world. A newspaper became one of my biggest luxuries. I noticed that some of my close friends began treating me with reverence.
Max von Sydow

Friends, Away, Playing

I like movies. Movies have afforded me a modicum of luxuries. The thing about the movies is, if you're bad in a movie, you're bad forever.
Anthony Mackie

Movies, Bad, Movie

Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.
John Lothrop Motley

Life, Give, Dispense

The biggest difference for me is momentum. On a smaller film you get to shoot sometimes four or five scenes a day and you've got to do the tight schedule. I think I really feel the luxuries of a big budget film.
Joel Edgerton

Sometimes, Big, Film

On a low-budget film, you don't have all the luxuries.
Lukas Haas

The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.
Laura Miller

Family, Sacrifice, Dream

We have no right to luxuries while the poor want bread.
Thomas Day

Poor, While, Bread

Schools used to fund-raise for luxuries, like a trip to the water slides. Now, we fund-raise for things we have to have.
Kirk Gibson

Used, Water, Schools

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