luxuries quotes

In the affluent society, no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessities.

-John Kenneth Galbraith
  The Affluent Society.

  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.

-John Keats
  Letter to Fanny Brawne, 25  Jul.

Columbus and his men, they say, Conveyed the virus hither Whereby my features rot away And vital powers wither; Yet had they not traversed the seas And come infected back, Why, think of all the luxuries That modern life would lack.

- Richard Wilbur
  'Pangloss's Song', from Candide.