Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury -- to me these have always been contemptible. I assume that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

Money is another pressure. I'm not complaining, I'm just saying that there's a certain luxury in having no money. I spent ten years in New York not having it, not worrying about it. Suddenly you have it, then you worry, where is it going? Am I doing the right thing with it? (Quote by - Dustin Hoffman)

Morality is a private and costly luxury (Quote by - Henry Brooks Adams)

While we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us. (Quote by - Audre Lorde)

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. (Quote by - Charlie Chaplin)

It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming (Quote by - Garrison Keillor)

We're fortunate that we have that luxury and we're crazy if we don't use it. (Quote by - Randy Raper)

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent. (Quote by - Henry George)

Denim has a luxury feel with added details, updated shapes and a variety of washes. (Quote by - Francine Crocker)

I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars -- it's a luxury I can't afford. (Quote by - Pablo Picasso)

It's a luxury to have two fine players. Any one of them can carry you on any given night. (Quote by - Dave Robbins)

It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes. (Quote by - Orson Scott Card)

Under the rules of a society that cannot distinguish between profit and profiteering, between money defined as necessity and money defined as luxury, murder is occasionally obligatory and always permissible. (Quote by - Lewis H. Lapham)

It is a luxury to be understood. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Cathedrals, luxury liners laden with souls, Holding to the east their hulls of stone. (Quote by - W. H. Auden)

I always thought I should be treated like a star (Quote by - Madonna)

Luxury really is going to be the next wave for retail. (Quote by - Tracey Gotsis)

Women want certain things in marriage--the right to a title and a front seat in the lap of luxury. (Quote by - Mae West)

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)

Luxury, so far as it reaches the people, will do good to the race of people; it will strengthen and multiply them. Sir, no nation was ever hurt by luxury; for, as I said before; it can reach but a very few. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)

Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it (Quote by - Ted Morgan)

Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt: It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith )

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world. (Quote by - Cesare Pavese)

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none (Quote by - Doug Larson)

Little countries do not have this luxury of defending themselves. We have to do it before the fact, not after the fact, (Quote by - Charles Taylor)