Top 206 Luxuries Quotes & Sayings

In the affluent society, no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessities.

Don’t buy luxuries until you’ve built the assets to afford them

Capitalism is about turning luxuries into necessities.

Spite and ill-nature are among the most expensive luxuries in life.

... she indulged in melancholy - that cheapest and most accessible of luxuries.

The necessaries of life occasion the great expense of the poor. They find it difficult to get food, and the greater part of their little revenue is spent in getting it. The luxuries and vanities of life occasion the principal expense of the rich, and a magnificent house embellishes and sets off to the best advantage all the other luxuries and vanities which they possess ... It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.

Luxuries unfit us for returning to hardships easily endured before.

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

For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.

Positive emotions are not trivial luxuries, but instead might be critical necessities for optimal functioning.

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

I don't understand this pathetic need for luxuries.

When you're not in studios, you don't have any luxuries; you can't control the elements, so you have to put up with those extremes.

Having been on a private jet only two or three times, it's one of life's great luxuries.

Ah, how many luxuries has the good God prepared for his Jewish children.

The more we count the blessings we have, the less we crave the luxuries we haven't.

Sufficient sleep, exercise, healthy food, friendship, and peace of mind are necessities, not luxuries.

The real mistake humans have committed lays in the inability to differentiate between requirements and luxuries.

There can be no brotherhood when some nations indulge in previously unheard of luxuries, while others struggle to stave off famine.

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

In poor Rosamond's mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in.

My grandmother lives with my mother in a gorgeous house in the San Fernando Valley. I am afforded these luxuries, and I'm very young.

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

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Friendship is one of the greatest luxuries of life.

If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxuries. [Lat., Avaritiam si tollere vultis, mater ejus est tollenda, luxuries.]

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

Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries

School libraries are the foundations of our culture – not luxuries.

One of the big luxuries of being in Antwerp is that I can easily walk in the city. In Paris and New York, I am more recognized.

Another ingredient in a happy marriage: Budget the luxuries first!

When we turn luxuries into necessities, we jeopardize our ability for contentedness.

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

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

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

I strongly believe that privacy is one of the biggest luxuries one can have in life - to have your own private world and not be invaded by the outside.

Art and design are not luxuries, nor somehow incompatible with science and engineering.

The luxuries of civilization satisfy only those wants which they themselves create.

First-class travel, provided one hasn't to pay for it oneself, is the most insidiously addictive of life's luxuries.

The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.

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

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.

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.

Budget the luxuries first.

Never economize on luxuries.

Men aren't necessities, they're luxuries.

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

The way I choose to live my own life rates time and space as real luxuries.

It puts things into perspective when we realize that people can live without the luxuries we grow accustomed to having.

Haircuts are luxuries and, as such, should be as expensive as you can possibly afford.

Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.

Fortune provides a man's table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.

I had many luxuries in life, even before I tied the knot.

Privacy and loneliness were the traditional luxuries accorded to a skipper.

That's one of the luxuries of being able to do mixtapes, it's that you can do something different or you can do anything you want to do, how you're feeling at the time.

Rich people buy luxuries last, while the poor and middle class tend to buy luxuries first.

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

Wine and other luxuries have a tendency to enervate the mind and make men less brave in battle.

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

Poverty, labor, and calamity are not without their luxuries, which the rich, the indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek for.