Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Love and compassion are necessities not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

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.

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.

You take away all the other luxuries in life and if you can make someone smile and laugh you have given the most special gift: happiness.

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.