Today riches and honours have been lavished on me, but one gift has been lacking, the most important one of all, the only one that matters, the gift of youth.
- Knut HamsunThe appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love`s a charity ward, you know.
- Lawrence DurrellBut this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose particularity in our work would remain the essential thing for you, and whose original arrangement could be broken up only artificially.
- Jacques Lacan