A Quote by John Lothrop Motley

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

John Lothrop Motley

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John Lothrop Motley
American - Historian
April 15, 1814 - May 29, 1877

Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities.

Oscar Wilde

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

John Lothrop Motley

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

O America, how you've taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

This will be the day when we shall bring into full realization the dream of American democracy - a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

Robert Orben

Men aren't necessities, they're luxuries.

Cher

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Cher

Capitalism is about turning luxuries into necessities.

Andrew Carnegie

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

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

Flora Thompson

Simply to have all the necessities of life and three meals a day will not bring happiness. Happiness is hidden in the unnecessary and in those impractical things that bring delight to the inner person. . . . When we lack proper time for the simple pleasures of life, for the enjoyment of eating, drinking, playing, creating, visiting friends, and watching children at play, then we have missed the purpose of life. Not on bread alone do we live but on all these human and heart-hungry luxuries.