I believe that music
I believe that music should be grown on trees, to be plucked like a fruit without the extravagance of harvest. Eyvind Kang
Extravagance
My mother\\’s illness fitted
My mother’s illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty. Ellen Wilkinson
The obscurity, incredibility and
The obscurity, incredibility and obscenity, so conspicuous in many parts of it, would justly condemn the works of a modern writer. It contains a mixture of inconsistency and contradiction; to call which the word of God, is the highest pitch of extravagance: it is to attribute to the deity that which any person of common … Read more
We like the fine
We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be. Edwin Percy Whipple
If the art of
If the art of gardening is at last to turn back from her extravagances and rest with her other sisters, it is, above everything, necessary to have clearly before you what you require . . . It is certainly tasteless and inconsistent to desire to encompass the world with a garden-wall, but very practicable and … Read more
We deny that it
We deny that it is fun to be saving. It is fun to be prodigal. Go to the butterfly, thou parsimonious sluggard; consider her ways and get wise. Franklin P. Adams
An extravagance is something
An extravagance is something you buy which is no earthly use to your wife. Franklin P. Adams
No country, however rich,
No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order. Franklin D. Roosevelt
The passion of acquiring
The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense corrupts the purest souls. Francois Fenelon
My biggest extravagances are
My biggest extravagances are also investments. I have several houses in California, a house in Nashville, an office complex, and I bought the old home place in Tennessee. They are different places for me to write, but I can turn right around and sell them. Dolly Parton