Edin Dzeko Quotes

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

It is only luxury and avarice that make poverty grievous to us; for it is a very small matter that does our business, and when we have provided against cold, hunger, and thirst, all the rest is but vanity and excess.

Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it, and the second reeked claret.

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

Less is a bore.

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

I like simplicity; I don't need luxury.

I don't need a whole lot.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

If you only use rich and luxurious ingredients, you end up with excess.

Luxury is the opposite of the naturally necessary.

Beware of luxury! Beware of acquiring the taste and need for it, under the pretext of providing for the morrow.

Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.

I adore extravagance but I abhor waste.

For me, life is not about gold taps and marble all over the place.

The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.

I'm not an extravagant man. The fact that I can have a coffee out whenever I want still makes me feel grateful.

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.

I live a pretty simple life.

I really don't require a whole lot in life.

Hollywood could use less instead of more of everything.

My material life is simple.

My look is either very baroque or very Zen - everything in between makes me itch.

Go far - too far you cannot, still the farther. The more experience finds you: and go sparing. One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, through all your travels; for you'll find it certain.

The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.