Quotes About Excess

Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.

I feel the same way about clothes as I do about food. I want everything.

In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.

In the Clark apartment doorknobs and plates and hinges were overlaid with sterling silver.) There were inlaid marble floors, wrought-iron staircases, walls wainscoted in rare marbles and choice hardwoods, bronze lamp fixtures and railings in the elevator lobbies.

Yet literal or figurative, only the human state, the mode that is balanced without too much suffering and too much comfort, is said to be conducive to future spiritual growth. An excess of suffering prevents people from ever giving thought to anything else since their minds are overwhelmed by pain, while an excess of comfort and happiness dulls the mind and gives no motivation for change.

However, bullets are a bit like salt—often essential to bring out the best, but distasteful if overdone.

It is but one of the many follies of luxury which lead men to believe that plenty now is abundance always and fortune is everlasting. Pure folly.

Thrill me, chill me I went in search of money and success, all I got was a bellyful of excess! Now that I've realigned myself I'm on my tip-toes because life is sweet! I'm overwhelmed with gratitude for all the blessings that are manifesting in my life … neat!

Take outside - freedom. What is it? What does it mean to a madman? I'll tell you, we go years through a lifetime with no love, no sex, no nice food and no nice clothes. So when it comes…we choke on it! The kindness strangles us; we can't cope, so we make pigs of ourselves.

Altogether, the United States handed over to Afghanistan about $900 million of "foreign excess real property"—military hand-me-downs of various kinds—and destroyed another $46 million worth because the items were too sensitive or impractical to transfer. The largest single gift was Camp Leatherneck, the United States Marine base in Helmand, valued at $235 million; the Marines lowered the American flag and flew away in late October.28

The percentage you're paying is too high priced While you're living beyond all your means And the man in the suit has just bought a new car From the profit he's made on your dreams.

Las Vegas is sort of like how God would do it if he had money.

Sometimes, a certain amount of waste is just a necessary part of maximizing one's pleasure.

A lot of celebrities have a sense of humor, and combined with an outrageous event, sometimes the sky's the limit!

I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.

The most I've smoked in a day was over an ounce, in Germany.

I got, like, 120 pairs of glasses and 800 pairs of sneakers.

I'm an extremist. If I go to a sneaker store, I buy 20 pairs of sneakers, not one.

The only answer to terror is an excess of democracy.

Nothing doth sooner breed a distaste or satiety than plenty.

That is a subtle observation on the part of philosophy: you can both love virtue too much and [B] behave with excess [A] in an action which itself is just. The [B] Voice [A] of God adapts itself fittingly to that bias: 'Be not more wise than it behoveth, but be ye soberly wise.

I have heard Silvius, an excellent physician of Paris, say that lest the digestive faculties of the stomach should grow idle, it were not amiss once a month to rouse them by this excess, and to spur them lest they should grow dull and rusty; and one author tells us that the Persians used to consult about their most important affairs after being well warmed with wine.

Desconfía de un confort excesivo: engendra irreflexión.

El exceso y la pasividad son, para un hombre, las dos formas mayores de la inmoralidad en la práctica de las aphrodisia.