“The latter estimate is certainly an extravagant exaggeration,”
Helmut Schmidt
“He that spends a Groat a day idly, spends idly above 6 l. a year, which is the Price of using 100 l.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Where there is no extravagance there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding.”
Oscar Wilde
“When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich”
“I was extravagant in the matter of cameras Ð anything photographic Ð I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest Ð or without.”
Edward Weston
“We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.”
Jennie Jerome Churchill
