Quotes about Excess
The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.
- John Updike
In a way, gluttony is an athletic feat, a stretching exercise.
- John Updike
I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.
- Albert Camus
Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.
- Marilyn Monroe
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
- Mark Twain
Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.
- Mark Twain
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
- Oscar Wilde
The greedy misuse the world by striving to acquire it.
- Martin Luther
And now, I am dying beyond my means.
- Oscar Wilde
Our affluence does not make us selfish; it simply enables us to afford more sophisticated expressions of selfishness.
- Paul David Tripp
Under the authority of Pharaoh, let them collect all the excess food from these good years, that they may come and lay up the grain to be preserved as food in the cities.
- Genesis 41:35
So Moses collected the redemption money from those in excess of the number redeemed by the Levites.
- Numbers 3:49