Quotes about Excess

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.

To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

There is nothing more sickening than talking about poverty over a fancy dinner.

When we read more books, look at more pictures, listen to more music, than we can possibly absorb the result of such gluttony is not a cultured mind but a consuming one; what it reads, looks at, listens to, is immediately forgotten, leaving no more traces behind it than yesterday's newspaper.

For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended.

We should travel light and live simply. Our enemy is not possessions but excess.

There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty.

Tutors are usually shaggy, ill-groomed junior dons who smoke and drink to excess and never leave their rooms except for illicit sexual liaisons or to replenish their stocks of tobacco and spirits. A

Society has become so obsessed with sex that it seeps from all the pores of our national life.

We have at our fingertips every pleasure that man is capable of enjoying, and man has abused every gift God ever gave him.

Greed is an unreasonable or all-absorbing desire to acquire things or wealth. One test of greed is that it is never satisfied. Greed is repeatedly condemned in the Bible.