Quotes about Excess
To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
— St. Augustine
Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
— St. Augustine
It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.
— Victor Hugo
Sin may result from activities that begin innocently or that are perfectly legitimate in moderation, but in excess they can cause us to veer from the straight and narrow path to our destruction.
— Joseph Wirthlin
God doesn't give us just enough. God gives us more than enough: more bread and fish than we can eat, more love than we dared to ask for.
— Henri Nouwen
On the other hand, a flaccid, moping, debauched mollusc, tired from too much love and loose-nerved from general world conditions, can be a shameful thing served raw upon the shell.
— MFK Fisher
How many more cars, clothes, toys and trinkets do we really need before we wake up and realize that half the world goes to bed every night with empty stomachs and naked bodies?
— KP Yohannan
Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.
— Henry David Thoreau
The luxuriously rich are not simply kept comfortably warm, but unnaturally hot; as I implied before, they are cooked, of course "a la mode."
— Henry David Thoreau
men have come to such a pass that they frequently starve, not for want of necessaries, but for want of luxuries;
— Henry David Thoreau
Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.
— Publilius Syrus
I'm the frosting on America's cake, and tonight I'm willing to let you lick the bowl.
— Stephen Colbert