Quotes About Excess

I don't dispute the fact that I ordered too many mason jars. 1,200 Mason jars in a studio apartment is not the hill that I will die on.

The more storage you have, the more stuff you accumulate.

As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

Food has replaced sex in my life; now, I can't even get into my own pants.

Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand.

Pigs get fat hogs get slaughtered.

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.

They're clinking glasses and knocking it back to their hearts' content. Tastes so good they can't stop. Ain't you heard the old saying: 'Money comes from God and the Devil collects it?' Well, the Devil's collecting his share now.

Consider the example of saturated fat. This nutrient is widely considered to be bad, but the human body uses saturated fats in all kinds of helpful ways. Saturated fat is good. It just so happens that the modern diet contains too much of it. In most cases, what we really mean when we label a certain nutrient bad is that we tend to consume it in excess.

We hit a fulfillment ceiling and never recognized that the formula of money = fulfillment not only had stopped working but had started to work against us. No matter how much we bought, the fulfillment curve kept heading down.

The Hoover Commission agreed. Leisure was not, in fact, an excuse to relax. It was a hole to fill up with more wants (which, in turn, required more work to pay for them). Somehow the consumer solution satisfied both the industrial hedonists hell-bent on achieving a material paradise and the puritans who feared that unoccupied leisure would lead to sin. In fact, the new consumerism promoted all the deadly sins (lust, covetousness, gluttony, pride, envy) except perhaps anger and sloth.

We no longer live life. We consume it.

Instead of leisure being simply "relaxed activity," it was transformed into an opportunity for increased consumption—even consumption of leisure itself (as in travel and vacations).

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.

I have too Many Cookies? what do you think?

People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.

Over fertilized plants may be beautiful but are otherwise useless, like people whose energies are devoted so completely to their appearance that there is no other development.

Too much beauty, I reckon, is nothing but too much sun.

The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.

The best things beyond their measure cloy.

I often buy myself presents. Sometimes I will spend $100,000 in one day in a posh boutique.

There's a rule they don't teach you at the Harvard Business School. It is, if anything is worth doing, it's worth doing to excess.

Show business is and has always been a depraved carnival.