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1. “If you have to ask how much it costs, you can’t afford it.”

J.P. Morgan

Wealth, Affordability, Luxury, Finance, Reality

2. “Anyone who has to ask about the annual upkeep of a yacht can’t afford one.”

J.P. Morgan

Wealth, Luxury, Finance, Affordability, Status

3. “You are affluent when you buy what you want, do what you wish and don’t give a thought to what it costs.”

J.P. Morgan

Wealth, Luxury, Freedom, Success, Finance

4. “I got a king-sized bed. I don’t know any kings, but if one came over, I guess he’d be comfortable.”

Mitch Hedberg

King, Bed, Comfort, Luxury, Humor

5. “Sassafras wood boiled down to a kind of tea, and tempered with an infusion of milk and sugar hath to some a delicacy beyond the China luxury.”

Charles Lamb

Tea, Sassafras, Luxury, Taste, Experience

6. “What, did you not know, then, that to-day Lucullus dines with Lucullus?”

Plutarch

Luxury, Indulgence, Excess, Irony, Wealth

7. “A man must have a less than ordinary share of sense that would furnish such plain and common rooms with silver-footed couches and purple coverlets and gold and silver plate.”

Plutarch

Sense, Luxury, Simplicity, Excess, Wisdom

8. “The wealthy man is not he who has money, but he who has the means to live in the luxurious state of early spring.”

Anton Chekhov

Wealth, Luxury, Happiness, Perspective, Life

9. “The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.”

Stendhal

Society, Luxury, Desire, Possession, Status

10. “That which annoys us does not necessarily injure us; but we are driven into wild rage by our luxurious lives, so that whatever does not answer our whims arouses our anger.”

Seneca

Anger, Luxury, Patience, Self-Control, Perspective

11. “The greatest luxury of life is peaceful breathing because it repairs the wounds of the cosmic soul.”

Amit Ray

Greatest, Luxury, Life, Breathing, Cosmic Healing

12. “What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman’s excellence?”

Sophocles

House, Luxury, Prosperity, Woman, Excellence

13. “Luxury is experiencing reality.”

Chogyam Trungpa

Luxury, Reality, Awareness, Presence, Fulfillment

14. “The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.”

Charlie Chaplin

Luxury, Materialism, Sadness, Simplicity, Perspective

15. “Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.”

Moliere

Opera, Art, Music, Luxury, Expense

16. “If Claret is the king of natural wines, Burgundy is the queen.”

Moliere

Wine, Taste, Luxury, Preference, Comparison

17. “The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the pursuit of science only leads to the insoluble.”

Benjamin Disraeli

Science, Discovery, Luxury, Indulgence, Knowledge

18. “No one but an adventurous traveler can know the luxury of sleep.”

Benjamin Disraeli

Traveler, Adventure, Luxury, Sleep, Experience

19. “To the capitalist, every luxury of the worker seems to be reprehensible, and everything that goes beyond the most abstract need – be it in the realm of passive enjoyment, or a manifestation of activity – seems to him a luxury.”

Karl Marx

Capitalist, Worker, Luxury, Needs, Class Struggle

20. “Luxury is the opposite of the naturally necessary.”

Karl Marx

Luxury, Necessity, Opposite, Materialism, Economy

21. “Riches are for spending.”

Francis Bacon

Wealth, Economy, Luxury, Consumption, Financial Wisdom

22. “Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.”

Frederick Douglass

Wealth, Expenditure, Taste, Luxury, Appetite

23. “The table groans under the heavy and blood-bought luxuries gathered with painstaking care, at home and abroad. Fields, forests, rivers and seas, are made tributary here. Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste.”

Frederick Douglass

Wealth, Slavery, Oppression, Luxury, Society

24. “Feel body as luxury – as a bird feels when shooting through the air, and as a child does always – is health.”

Paramahansa Yogananda

Body, Luxury, Health, Freedom, Child

25. “I don’t own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that’s a luxury I cannot afford.”

Pablo Picasso

Art, Ownership, Picasso, Luxury, Affordability

26. “My greatest pleasure is still flying private. I spend between $300,000 to $500,000, depending on my year, on flying private.”

Suze Orman

Luxury, Pleasure, Flying Private, Extravagance Spending, Financial Choices

27. “A pasty costly-made, Where quail and pigeon, lark and leveret lay, Like fossils of the rock, with golden yolks Imbedded and injellied.”

Alfred Tennyson

Food, Luxury, Nature, Preservation, Culinary Art

28. “The taste for splendor is hardly ever combined in the same souls with the taste for the honorable.”

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Character, Morality, Luxury, Human Nature, Social Values

29. “We must powder our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread.”

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Social Inequality, Luxury, Poverty, Societal Priorities, Economic Critique

30. “Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.”

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Luxury, Wealth, Corruption, Social Classes, Human Desire

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