Quotes About Excess

Here is a new car, a new iPhone. We buy. We discard. We buy again. In recent years, we've been doing it faster.

I'd hear guys bragging about their new Gulfstream IV or IV-SP, and then I'd get to say, "That's great, guys. Let me talk about my 747 . . ." It was a great conversation stopper.

Excessive happiness! I never knew there was such a disorder. I didn't know you could be too happy.

It makes no sense in modern life to use our energies to have five cars, five bathrooms, or even five shirts, but we just . . . want them.

Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.

Everyone who comes out does a very foolish thing in bringing such a quantity of clothes that he never wants.

We've gone overboard on every Queen album. But that's Queen.

I like excess. And giant M&M's.

I think it's important to encourage gluttony in all its formats.

There are lots of businesses that are well in excess of $9 billion that have gone into bankruptcy, that have been mismanaged. And that has not served anyone very well.

Too much of a good thing is wonderful.

I think that, pretty much, any good thing taken to extremes can become a bad thing.

A GLUTTON IS ONE who raids the icebox for a cure for spiritual malnutrition.

To stay cheerful when involved in a gloomy and exceedingly responsible business is no inconsiderable art: yet what could be more necessary than cheerfulness? Nothing succeeds in which high spirits play no part. Only excess of strength is proof of strength.

Excess of strength alone is proof of strength

The genius, in work and deed, is necessarily a squanderer: he squanders himself. That is his greatness! … He flows out, he overflows, he uses himself up, he does not spare himself—and this is a calamitous involuntary fatality, no less than a river's flooding the land.

The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness

The lover of God never knows the words "too much." Those who accuse others of loving God or religion too much really do not love God at all, nor do they know the meaning of love.

The word enough does not exist in Love's vocabulary

I don't have a drinking problem," I said. "I have a stopping problem.

so many knives and forks and spoons were not meant for a human being but for a centipede...

Preserving everything is a form of negligence that causes a new kind of damage: the loss of what matters in a glut of the insignificant. To preserve everything is to lose everything.

Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.

I used to have Lamborghinis, Ferraris parked up outside the house - just parked there with no one driving them! Now I'm much wiser, and I only have one car that I drive. What's the point of having three cars just parked up when you don't need them?