luxury

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of a certain income can indulge.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

He tried the luxury of doing good.

If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.

What do I want to take home from my summer vacation? Time. The wonderful luxury of being at rest. The days when you shut down the mental machinery that keeps life on track and let life simply wander. The days when you stop planning, analyzing, thinking and just are. Summer is my period of grace.

On the soft bed of luxury most kingdoms have expired.

The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see. . . . No, wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, as vital to our lives as water and good bread.

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, and paradise is when you have none.