Quotes about Excess
Why, the man is rich as wedding-cake.
— LM Montgomery
Short is the way from need to greed.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word luxury.
— Alain de Botton
I ate so many Ramen noodles that I wouldn't even touch a package of them now.
— Jeremy Camp
Whenever we have more than we need, our natural assumption will be that it's for our own consumption.
— Andy Stanley
Greed is supported by an endless cast of what-ifs. Greedy people can never have enough to satisfy the need they feel in light of every conceivable eventuality.
— Andy Stanley
Whiskey is all right in its place - but its place is hell.
— Billy Sunday
Excessive literary production is a social offense.
— George Eliot
Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.
— Aldous Huxley
God in His goodness sent the grapes, to cheer both great and small; little fools will drink too much, and great fools not at all.
— Anonymous
Drunkenness, the ruin of reason, the destruction of strength, premature old age, momentary death.
— St. Basil
Things, things, things. Always more things, and success is seen as the abundance of things.
— Francis Schaeffer