Quotes About Excess

At the heart of the matter of masculine excess is a great longing for the love and approval of a father, a man who can tell another man that his masculinity is splendid enough and he can now relax.

We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.

Riches too increase, and the maddening craving for gold, So that men ever seek for more, that they may have the most.

Where the banana grows man is sensual and cruel.

Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on vanities of man's devising.

Nothing in the world is so incontinent as a man's accursed appetite.

You took too much man, too much, too much.

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don't need, with money they don't have, in order to impress others who don't care, is probably the phoniest field in existence today.

If I had the money and the drinking capacity, I'd probably live at a roulette table and let my life go to hell.

It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene

Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.

It's about time we stopped buying things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

We no longer live life. We consume it.

Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.

I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.

Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.

We had access to too much equipment, too much money, and little by little we went insane.

Where once they used to say, 'Cocaine is God's way of saying you have too much money' - now, maybe EDM is. Come ye lords and princelings of douchedom.

Ridiculous sums of money can be confusing.

Give a hippie too much money and anything can happen.

People who have car collections - I never understood that. I always thought that was unnecessary. It's not beautiful, it's not creative. It's just showing how much money you've got.

I was a workaholic. I never stopped. I lived in fifth gear. I bought cars. I invested in stocks. I made more money than I had ever imagined.