Quotes about Excess
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.
- Mark Twain
If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.
- Ayn Rand
There is no such thing as excess in our taking of this spiritual food. There is no such virtue as temperance in spiritual feasting.
- Jonathan Edwards
of a corrupt spirit, that breaks over all bounds, and loves inordinate vastnesse; that is it we ought to be carefull of.
- Jonathan Edwards
Why, the man is rich as wedding-cake.
- LM Montgomery
Short is the way from need to greed.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word luxury.
- Alain de Botton
I ate so many Ramen noodles that I wouldn't even touch a package of them now.
- Jeremy Camp
Whenever we have more than we need, our natural assumption will be that it's for our own consumption.
- Andy Stanley
Greed is supported by an endless cast of what-ifs. Greedy people can never have enough to satisfy the need they feel in light of every conceivable eventuality.
- Andy Stanley
Whiskey is all right in its place - but its place is hell.
- Billy Sunday
Excessive literary production is a social offense.
- George Eliot