A Quote by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Although we sometimes did without a few of life's necessities, we rarely lacked for its luxuries.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Edna St. Vincent Millay
American - Author
February 22, 1892 - October 19, 1950

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

The luxuries of the few were becoming necessities of the many.

Flora Thompson

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

Dalai Lama

Somehow we are going to have to develop a concept of enough for those at the top and at the bottom so that the necessities of the many are not sacrificed for the luxuries of the few.

Marian Wright Edelman

Avoid the philosophy and excuse that yesterday's luxuries have become today's necessities. They aren't necessities unless we ourselves make them such. . . . It is essential for us to live within our means.

Thomas S. Monson

If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.

A. Edward Newton

Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.

John Lothrop Motley

It's often hard for us to imagine going without some of our luxuries like travel, dining out, or Internet, much less our basic necessities like food and water. But try for a minute to imagine how life would be with such deprivations.

Marcus Samuelsson

Men aren't necessities, they're luxuries.

Cher

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Cher

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.""Laughter is good for thinking because when people laugh, it is easier for them to admit new ideas to their minds.

Dalai Lama

Capitalism is about turning luxuries into necessities.