Extravagance is its own destroyer. [ Zeno ]
Extravagance is the rich man's pitfall. [ Tupper ]
Wisdom seldom consorts with extravagance. [ Mendemus ]
The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay,
Provides a home from which to run away. [ Young ]
Expense of time is the most costly of all expenses. [ Theophrastus ]
There is hope in extravagance, there la none in routine. [ Emerson ]
Dreading that climax of all human ills, The inflammation of his wreekly bills. [ Byron ]
If extravagance were a fault, it would not have a place in the festivals of the gods. [ Aristippus ]
The world abhors closeness, and all but admires extravagance; yet a slack hand shows weakness, a tight hand strength. [ Charles Buxton ]
The finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model and with the human race, but without miracle, without extravagance. [ Montaigne ]
When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move, as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so. He that stops first, views as from a fixed point the horrible extravagance that transports the rest. [ Colton ]
Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them; it is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation; from pure extravagance, and genuine, unmingled falsehood, the world never has, and never can sustain any mischief. [ Sydney Smith ]