Quotes About Extravagances

The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.

But these extravagances were due perhaps to whisky-and-water, and that kind of intoxication which comes to certain men from momentary triumphs. Tifto could always be got to make a fool of himself when surrounded by three or four men of rank who, for the occasion, would talk to him as an equal.

The life of the mind is not only a protection against boredom; it also wards off the pernicious effects of boredom; it keeps us from bad company, from the many dangers, misfortunes, losses and extravagances which the man who places his happiness entirely in the objective world is sure to encounter

Vengeance is the most costly and dissipating of luxuries.

An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms and extravagances of solitary and uncorrected speculation.

Las ideas de los grandes hombres son el patrimonio común de la humanidad mientras que a ellos en realidad apenas les quedan ciertas extravagancias. El libro que describiera a un hombre con todas sus anomalías sería una obra similar a la estampa japonesa que nunca deja de incluir la imagen de una pequeña oruga captada por casualidad a una hora particular del día".