Quotes about Excess
The avarice of mankind is insatiable.
— Aristotle
Virtue is a mean between two vices, that which depends on excess and that which depends on defect.
— Aristotle
On the other hand, because fortune is needed as an addition, some hold good fortune to be identical with Happiness: which it is not, for even this in excess is a hindrance, and perhaps then has no right to be called good fortune since it is good only in so far as it contributes to Happiness.
— Aristotle
Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine.
— John Milton
Most of our life is a gorging of one artificially inflamed appetite after another.
— John Piper
Amusement, on the other hand, is sought for the sake of pleasure and is often carried to excess; it absorbs the energies that are required for useful work and thus proves a hindrance to life's true success.
— Ellen White
Our danger is not from scarcity, but from abundance. We are constantly tempted to excess.
— Ellen White
You think you're being difficult, my little sausage? Have I ever told you about the time I drank eight vodka martinis, took all my clothes off in front of a film crew and then broke my manager's nose?
— Elton John
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.
— Mark Twain
If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.
— Ayn Rand
There is no such thing as excess in our taking of this spiritual food. There is no such virtue as temperance in spiritual feasting.
— Jonathan Edwards
of a corrupt spirit, that breaks over all bounds, and loves inordinate vastnesse; that is it we ought to be carefull of.
— Jonathan Edwards