An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms and extravagances of solitary and uncorrected speculation.
An extravagance is something you buy which is no earthly use to your wife.
Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
The substitution of meaning accounts for the grasping of misers as well as the extravagance of spendthrifts. Karl Marx well understood this peculiar transformation of flesh into coin.
Do you know of any more overwhelming and humbling expression for God's condescension and extravagance towards us human beings than that He places Himself, so to say, on the same level of choice with the world, just so that we may be able to choose; that God, if language dare speak thus, woos humankind - that He, the eternally strong one, woos sapless humanity? Yet, how insignificant is the young lover's choice between her pursuers by comparison with this choice between God and the world.
He who buys what he does not want ends in wanting what he cannot buy.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
He that spends a Groat a day idly, spends idly above 6 l. a year, which is the Price of using 100 l.
A large retinue upon a small income, like a large cascade upon a small stream, tends to discover its tenuity.
The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.
The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.
in dreams it is often the case that the greatest extravagances seem bereft of their power to astonish and the most improbable chimeras seem commonplace.
An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.
We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle - even if he can afford more.
Will you tell me how to prevent riches from producing luxury? Will you tell me how to prevent luxury from producing effeminacy, intoxication, extravagance, vice and folly?
That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which he can afford to lose.
Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.
I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
There was one bursting now, a delicate constellation of many-coloured stars which drifted down and lingered in the still air. . . . The final rocket went up, a really large one, a piece of reckless extravagance. Its sibilant uprush was impressive, dragonlike; it soared twice as high as any they had had before. . . . The sparks from the rocket came pouring down the sky in a slow golden cascade, vanishing one by one into a lake of darkness.
We can never put ourselves in the shoes of children; we cannot fathom their thoughts, we lend them ours; and always following ourown reasoning, we stuff their heads with extravagance and error.
