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Blesses his stars, and thinks it luxury.

To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his snuff-box, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back.

Sofas 'twas half a sin to sit upon, So costly were they; carpets, every stitch Of workmanship so rare, they make you wish You could glide o'er them like a golden fish.

Blest hour! It was a luxury--to be!

O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree.

Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt: It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.

Then there is that glorious Epicurean paradox, uttered by my friend, the Historian in one of his flashing moments: "Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries."

Fell luxury! more perilous to youth Than storms or quicksands, poverty of chains.

Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart, enslave it more than the most active and turbulent vices.

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

On his weary couch Fat Luxury, sick of the night's debauch, Lay groaning, fretful at the obtrusive beam That through his lattice peeped derisively.

The media is constantly redefining what luxury is. Luxury can be a dirty sock if dressed up in the right way.

Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.

What think you, if he were conveyed to bed, Wrapped in sweet clothes, rings put upon his fingers, A most delicious banquet by his bed, And brave attendants near him when he wakes, Would not the beggar then forget himself?

Like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.

Falsely luxurious, will not man awake?

On the soft bed of luxury most kingdoms have expired.

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

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.

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.