Quotes about Excess

Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.

God in His goodness sent the grapes, to cheer both great and small; little fools will drink too much, and great fools not at all.

Drunkenness, the ruin of reason, the destruction of strength, premature old age, momentary death.

Things, things, things. Always more things, and success is seen as the abundance of things.

Shopping: The fine art of acquiring things you don't need with money you don't have.

The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

You booze, you cruise, you lose.

A feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees.

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

The ancient proverb says, "Satiety   produces disgust

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.

The spiritual man in mythology, in literature and in the great world religions has an excess of life, he knows he has it, makes no apology for it, and finally recognizes that he does not even need to protect or guard it. It is not for him. It is for others. His life is not his own. His life is not about him. It is about God.