Quotes About Excess

Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me.

Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken.

Now that I have written many words, and let out so many loves, for so many, and been altogether what I always was a woman of excess, of zeal and greed, I find the effort useless.

I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate--and volatile--I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry. I shall be rampant.

The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt.

I think it's a bit excessive.

They ask - "How much money is too much money?"The answer always is - "A little more!

Ambition and thirst for power have a part but greed and greed alone is the reason for a man wanting to swell his ward.

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.

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

People who achieve luxurious lifestyles are rarely satisfied: Experiencing luxury only whets their appetite for even more luxury.

Although all things in excess bring harm, the greatest danger comes from excessive good fortune: it stirs the brain, invites the mind to entertain idle fancies, and shrouds in thick fog the distinction between falsehood and truth.

Success is very much like a drug: it makes you feel good; you don't know what you are missing until you experience it; once you experience it, you want more; and in your attempts to recapture that first high, you will have to resort to ever bigger "doses." And if success is like a drug, some drugs are like success: a cocaine high, I am told, very much resembles the rush of success.

The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom...for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough.

The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Enough! or too much.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom...You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.

And what if excess of love Bewildered them till they died?

South Carolina wanted to be certain that no misguided egalitarianism led to an excess of democracy. After all, that was partially what they were seceding from.

T]he people of plenty were a people of waste.

The old man always used too much of everything, too many lemons, too much sugar, as if halfmeasures at anything were beneath him.

Nature punishes gluttony, not avarice or hate.