The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

Love is a luxury.

I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this he knows where the danger is.

Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball like the odor that follows an automobile.

Nowadays you really have to pump out that blockbuster in order to have the luxury of getting a body of work and that's sad because the work suffers. Today everything is based on money. The older actors they inspire me.

It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels and I love to have a long relationship with characters.

Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.

It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts.

It's such a luxury to be able to be happy about going to work in the morning.

You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay you do more good to them by spending it in luxury than by giving it for by spending it in luxury you make them exert industry whereas by giving it you keep them idle.

My very sassy older southern sister is very quick to point out that it's a luxury that my daughter gets to come to work with me. She does and I have lunch with her every single day. My mom says I have 'high class problems.'

I like to work. The self-esteem and satisfaction that I get from working makes me a better person which makes me a better mom. I feel lucky because I have the luxury of working only one or two days a week.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

I think I'd like to stay anchoring because number one I'm learning a lot and I love it when I'm learning. And number two I also have the luxury of a stable life.

The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury.

It's a great excuse and luxury having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have to work you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own.

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

To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.

Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers room service there doesn't do soul food.