Quotes About Excess

Self-indulgence produces a vanity of all vanities.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.

You're swimming in a sea of abundance.

The American Way of Life! Eat too much, work too much, buy too much, read too little, think even less, and die in poverty and insecurity. No, thank you. Don't you see that's how Americans take over the world? Not just through their army and their CIA and their World Bank., but through this infectious disease called the American Dream?

The American Way of Life! Eat too much, work too much, buy too much, read too little, think even less, and die in poverty and insecurity.

Credit is what enables people to pay 20% to 35% extra for that product which they probably don't need.

Money kills people more than weapons do.

There is not much difference between a greedy person and a pauper.

Too much of anything can't help you make your life better or happy.

Looking down on it from the helicopter, with a bottle of Jack in my left hand, a bag of pills in my right hand, and a blond head bobbing up and doen in my lap, I felt like the king of the world.

Joy, when it is excessive, overcomes as much as grief.

I don't feel comfortable defending my clothes. But if you've got the money to afford them, then buy something from me. Just don't buy too much.

Crime is a product of social excess.

The embarrassment of riches.

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

The way to become boring is to say everything.

If Falstaff had stuck to martinis, he'd be with us today.

Competition is only good up to a point. When supply exceeds demand

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

Mr. Dowler, could you go through this? Mr. Algie. Don't answer him, Dowler; he's going beyond all bounds. Paul Ruttledge. I was a rich man and I could not, and yet I am something smaller than a camel, and this is something larger than a needle's eye.

I would like to have great iron claws, and to put them about the pillars, and to pull and pull till everything fell into pieces. Jerome. I don't see what good that would do you. Paul Ruttledge. Oh, yes it would. When everything was pulled down we would have more room to get drunk in, to drink contentedly out of the cup of life, out of the drunken cup of life.

Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.

There's nothing so obscene and depressing as an American Christmas.