When you're not used to comfor...

When you're not used to comfort and good things to eat, you're intoxicated by them in no time. Truth's only too pleased to leave you. Very little is ever needed for Truth to let go of you. And after all, you're not really very keen to keep hold of it.

~Louis-Ferdinand Celine~

Now we suffer the evils of a l...

Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.

~(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal~

Most of the luxuries and many ...

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~

Luxury ruins republics; povert...

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.

~Charles De Montesquieu~

Give us the luxuries of life, ...

Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.

~John L. Motley~

For me, hard work represents t...

For me, hard work represents the supreme luxury of life.

~Albert Greenfield~