Quotes About Excess

Being rich, really rich, meant you could go completely crazy, and the only result would be everyone getting so jealous they couldn't stand it.

Gold we've got, humping we want – debauch! debauch!

All right, You Great Git, You've asked for it. I'll cover the world in Tastee-Freez and Wimpy Burgers. I'll fill it with concrete runways, motorways, aircraft, television, automobiles, advertising, plastic flowers, frozen food and supersonic bangs. I'll make it so noisy and disgusting that even You'll be ashamed of Yourself! No wonder You've so few friends. You're unbelievable!

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

Let's see how long the rich can eat their money for

But all we have now is rule by rich people, the ones who keep ninety percent of the world in relative poverty so their unbalanced market can continue paying for a lifestyle of total excess.

It's not governments I have an issue with—or not the concept of democratic government, anyway. But all we have now is rule by rich people, the ones who keep ninety percent of the world in relative poverty so their unbalanced market can continue paying for a lifestyle of total excess.

The cookies combine butter and spices in such a way that you could eat a hundred of them and only realize how sick you are after it's too late.

And the tent curtains will be a cubit longer on either side, and the excess will hang over the sides of the tabernacle to cover it.

Give the money to Aaron and his sons as the redemption price for the excess among the Israelites.”

ëSurely our foes are destroyed, and fire has consumed their excess.í

If you find honey, eat just what you need, lest you have too much and vomit it up.

The leech has two daughters: Give and Give. There are three things that are never satisfied, four that never say, ëEnough!í:

Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine and champions in mixing strong drink,

Now this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed, and complacent; they did not help the poor and needy.

Later, King Belshazzar held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he drank wine with them.

You lie on beds inlaid with ivory, and lounge upon your couches. You dine on lambs from the flock and calves from the stall.

Having lost all sense of shame, they have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity, with a craving for more.

cargo of gold, silver, precious stones, and pearls; of fine linen, purple, silk, and scarlet; of all kinds of citron wood and every article of ivory, precious wood, bronze, iron, and marble;