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Quotes About Excess

To be extravagant you need money. True. But you do not need your own money.
~ George Mikes
[Yahya Khan] thought of nothing but acquiring beautiful cars, building beautiful homes, making friends with bankers, and sending money abroad.
~ Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Money doesn't talk. It screams.
~ Glenn Beck
In terms of coke, the only money I ever thought about was that dollar bill I had stuck up my nose.
~ George Carlin
We made and spent at least 10 million dollars. The thing is, we heard that the planet was going to end in 2012. We thought, We have got to spend this money before the asteroid hits.
~ Spencer Pratt
The decent thing to do is to get rid of some of this money.
~ James A. Michener
In matters of money there's no such thing as enough.
~ Jean Anouilh
If you suppress the exorbitant love of pleasure and money, idle curiosity, iniquitous pursuits and wanton mirth, what a stillness would there be in the greatest cities.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
The love of money as a possession...will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.
~ John Maynard Keynes
Hollywood is just a bunch of people going around in Learjets to other people asking them if they've got any money? Well, they might have if they didn't spend it all on jets.
~ John Cusack
I've certainly been to Hollywood parties, and I have friends that are ridiculous - wonderful people - but they're high rollers with tons of money.
~ Justin Hartley
It's all about greed and money and it's the driving force in Hollywood.
~ Robert Redford
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.
~ Vivienne Westwood
I spent a lot of money on booze, birds, and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.
~ George Best
Like everything else, we know the futility of money only when we have more than enough of it.
~ R. N. Prasher
Too much fame, money or alcohol can make you stupid
~ Jeffrey Fry
Greed, one of the badliest capital sins, is not good, is not good for knolege, love, money. Greed "the capital sin" is necessary
~ S.M Camacho
I spent ninety percent of my money on wine, women and song and just wasted the other ten percent.
~ Ronnie Hawkins
A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.
~ Clarence Day
I get bombed for breakfast in the morning, I get bombed for dinner.
~ Elton John
When I was a drunk, New York was the greatest place in the world. You walk everywhere, everything is open until four in the morning, and people go to New York looking for debauchery.
~ Moby
The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
~ Donald Trump
If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.
~ William Shakespeare