Quotes About Excess

A while back, if I remember right, my life was one long party where all hearts were open wide, where all wines kept flowing. One night, I sat Beauty down on my lap.—And I found her galling.—And I roughed her up. I armed myself against justice. I ran away. O witches, O misery, O hatred, my treasure's been turned over to you! (Lines 1-5)

Greed can destroy so much," Sir Montague nodded.

One of the weaknesses of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our need from our greed.

If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.

Goodness I call the habit, and goodness of nature, the inclination. This of all virtues, and dignities of the mind, is the greatest; being the character of the Deity: and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing; no better than a kind of vermin. Goodness answers to the theological virtue, charity, and admits no excess, but error.

Television's escapist programming naturally continues to endorse living beyond one's means as the time-tested American Way and rarely depicts families or individuals wracked by the pressures and miseries that come with excess.

Presidential money is almost like the housing bubble. It's growing at such an astronomical rate, you think it can't get any bigger.

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

The reader need not be told that John Bull never leaves home without encumbering himself with the greatest possible load of luggage. Our companions were no exception to the rule.

The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.

My sister wants a Rollie. When I buy one now, I gotta buy like five, ten. It's crazy.

We are governed by consumerism and it's terrible when that is all that life is geared to.

Currently computer graphics are used a great deal, but it can be excessive.

There's no such thing as too much. If there's too much, then that's a great thing.

I think the main focus in America is - is basically greed.

The point is that you can't be too greedy.

Greedy actors should never be satisfied.

Sometimes groups and their material can get overbloated.

Growing up in the digital age of filmmaking, I'm as guilty as anyone of overshooting.

giving her endless boxes of Dots and candy corn

With multiple tabs open and clicking for hours, you can 'experience' more novel sex partners every ten minutes than your hunter-gatherer ancestors experienced in a lifetime.

for that which goes beyond moderation is folly and Sin.

La avaricia es la causa de todos los vicios.