Men aren’t necessities. They’re luxuries…

By Nabil Medawar | Published: January 4, 2009
  • A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.~ Rose Macaulay
  • Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of a certain income can indulge.~ St.Gregory The Great
  • A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.~ Marshall Mcluhan
  • A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.~ Walter Bagehot
  • Beauty is the sister of idleness and the mother of luxury.~ Russian Proverb
  • Cleanliness is the luxury of the poor.~ Mexican Proverb
  • Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.~ Socrates
  • Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.~ Cesare Pavese
  • For me, hard work represents the supreme luxury of life.~ Albert Greenfield
  • Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.~ John L. Motley
  • Hate is such a luxurious emotion, it can only be spent on one we love.~ Bob Udkoff
  • I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem.~ Fitz-Green Halleck
  • It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.~ Agnes Repplier
  • It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.~ Thomas Moore
  • Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when they are sick or aged. In the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience has been aroused, when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men aren’t necessities. They’re luxuries.~ Cher
  • Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance.~ Giambattista Vico
  • Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home; medicine but not health; luxuries but not culture; amusements but not happiness; religion but not salvation; a passport to everywhere but heaven.~ Author Unknown
  • 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.~ Henry David Thoreau
  • One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.~ George Eliot
  • On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.~ Andrew Young
  • The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.~ Oscar Wilde
  • The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.~ Charlie Chaplin
  • The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.~ Leontyne Price
  • We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.~ Charles Kingsley
  • We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.~ Jean De La Fontaine
  • What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity.~ Anthony Crosland

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