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Quotes About Excess

The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.
~ Josh Billings
Yes, put it there, fill the table so there's no space left, no room for the guilt.
~ Jude Morgan
Everything seems excessive, now, and too intense, too important.
~ Judith Guest
On every shopping trip, there is one indulgence.
~ Judy Blundell
Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.
~ Edmond de Goncourt
If you only use rich and luxurious ingredients, you end up with excess.
~ Alvin Leung
I have a living room full of clothes. It's insane.
~ Afrojack
We as Americans have ripped off the world. We get to throw food away. It's insane.
~ John McAfee
Fashion is one of the most intellectually vacuous industries. We had to manufacture desires to get people to buy our products. We were selling people countless things that they didn't need.
~ Douglas Tompkins
There is just so much excess in terms of the market for self-remodeling. I think most women are perfectly gorgeous and beautiful the way they are
~ Eve Ensler
Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Admitting that Katie had taken too much blood was on par with saying an adult human had pooped their pants or eaten their own boogers!
~ Faith Hunter
Or, worse, excess fat.
~ Faith Martin
You sure, because It looks like he could be draped across a buffet table and drizzled with chocolate.
~ Farrah Rochon
I'm famous for splurging at fast-food places. I'm currently obsessed with Taco Bell's bean and cheese burritos with extra green sauce and extra cheese. Gluttony!
~ Fergie
Không có gì th?m h?i h?n m?t ?ám c??ng hào t?nh l? t? hoàn thu? cho mình trong ti?c buffet c?a th? tr??ng
~ Frédéric Beigbeder
Baste! enough! I sup, I wet, I humect, I moisten my gullet, I drink, and all for fear of dying. Drink always and you shall never die.
~ Francois Rabelais
Notice that we say 'more psychiatrists than anywhere else in the world' but we could just as well say more swimming pools, more Nobel prizewinners, more strategic bombers, more apple pies, more computers, more natural parks, more libraries, more cheerleaders, more serial killers, more newspapers, more racoons, more of many more things, because it was the country of More, and had been for a long time.
~ Francois Lelord
Pride consists not in wanting to be rich, but in wanting to be richer than your neighbor. It is not in wanting to be noticed but in wanting to be the most noticed. It is not in wanting to have things but in wanting more things than others.
~ Billy Graham
We have at our fingertips every pleasure that man is capable of enjoying, and man has abused every gift God ever gave him.
~ Billy Graham
Greed is an unreasonable or all-absorbing desire to acquire things or wealth. One test of greed is that it is never satisfied. Greed is repeatedly condemned in the Bible.
~ Billy Graham
It kind of gets to you--all the waste. I can remember playing in the All-Star games, and how they'd have four or five pairs of shoes waiting for you. You go in there, grab a pair, wear them for the game, and leave the other four pairs lying there. How many kids in America could have used those shoes?
~ bird larry ii
To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.
~ Blaise Pascal
Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth give him too much, the same.
~ Blaise Pascal