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Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.
The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.
The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad, except you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
Luxury makes a man so soft, that it is hard to please him, and easy to trouble him; so that his pleasures at last become his burden. Luxury is a nice master, hard to be pleased.
Fell Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quick sands, poverty or chains.
I know it is more agreeable to walk upon carpets than to lie upon dungeon floors; I know it is pleasant to have all the comforts and luxuries of civilization; but he who cares only for these things is worth no more than a butterfly contented and thoughtless upon a morning flower; and who ever thought of rearing a tombstone to a last summers butterfly?
Avarice and luxury, those pests which have ever been the ruin of every great state.
All luxury corrupts either the morals or the state.
Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury, and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.
It was a shrewd saying, whoever said it, “ That the man who first brought ruin on the roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements.
On the soft bed of luxury most kingdom have expired.
Unless we are accustomed to them from early youth, splendid chambers and elegant furniture had best be left to people who neither have nor can have any thoughts.
You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury than by giving; you make them exert industry, whereas, by giving it, you keep them idle.
Luxury may possible contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.
Oh, brethren, it is sickening work to think of your cushioned seats, your chants, your anthems, tour choirs, your organs, tour gowns, and your bands, and I know not what besides, all made to be instruments of religious luxury, if not of pious dissipation, while ye need far mode to be stirred up and incited to holy ardor for the propagation of the truth as it is in Jesus.
O luxury! Thou crust of heaven’s decree.
Were the labor and capital, now spent on pernicious luxuries, to be employed in the intellectual, moral, and religious culture of the whole people, how immense would be the gain, in every respect, though for a short time material products were diminished. A better age will look back with wonder and scorn on the misdirected industry of the present times.
Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.
Luxury is the first, second, and third cause of the ruin of republics. It is the vampire which soothes us into a fatal slumber while it sucks the life blood of our veins.
The more we accommodate ourselves to plain things, and the less we indulge in those artificial delights which gratify pride and luxury, the nearer we approach to a state of innocency.
Where necessity ends, curiosity begins; and no sooner are we supplied with everything that nature can demand, than we sit down to contrive artificial appetites.
J.L. Motley (1814-187) American historian.
The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) Syrian mystic, poet.
The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) English actor, director.
Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad, except you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
Orson Welles (1915-1985) American filmmaker.
Luxury makes a man so soft, that it is hard to please him, and easy to trouble him; so that his pleasures at last become his burden. Luxury is a nice master, hard to be pleased.
Mackenzie.
Fell Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quick sands, poverty or chains.
H.More.
I know it is more agreeable to walk upon carpets than to lie upon dungeon floors; I know it is pleasant to have all the comforts and luxuries of civilization; but he who cares only for these things is worth no more than a butterfly contented and thoughtless upon a morning flower; and who ever thought of rearing a tombstone to a last summers butterfly?
H.W.Beecher.
Avarice and luxury, those pests which have ever been the ruin of every great state.
Livy.
All luxury corrupts either the morals or the state.
Joubert.
Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury, and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.
Bancroft.
It was a shrewd saying, whoever said it, “ That the man who first brought ruin on the roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements.
Plutarch.
On the soft bed of luxury most kingdom have expired.
Young.
Goethe.
You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury than by giving; you make them exert industry, whereas, by giving it, you keep them idle.
Johnson.
Luxury may possible contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.
Home.
Oh, brethren, it is sickening work to think of your cushioned seats, your chants, your anthems, tour choirs, your organs, tour gowns, and your bands, and I know not what besides, all made to be instruments of religious luxury, if not of pious dissipation, while ye need far mode to be stirred up and incited to holy ardor for the propagation of the truth as it is in Jesus.
Spurgeon.
O luxury! Thou crust of heaven’s decree.
Goldsmith.
Were the labor and capital, now spent on pernicious luxuries, to be employed in the intellectual, moral, and religious culture of the whole people, how immense would be the gain, in every respect, though for a short time material products were diminished. A better age will look back with wonder and scorn on the misdirected industry of the present times.
Channing.
Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.
Shakespeare.
Luxury is the first, second, and third cause of the ruin of republics. It is the vampire which soothes us into a fatal slumber while it sucks the life blood of our veins.
Payson.
The more we accommodate ourselves to plain things, and the less we indulge in those artificial delights which gratify pride and luxury, the nearer we approach to a state of innocency.
M.Henry.
Where necessity ends, curiosity begins; and no sooner are we supplied with everything that nature can demand, than we sit down to contrive artificial appetites.
Johnson.
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