Quotes about Excess

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses, though he be not drunk.

No one in this world needs a mink coat but a mink.

More than enough is too much.

And then she knew. Her friends and neighbors were angry at her because she had overstepped, given too much, offended them by excess.

The Church is perishing today through the lack of thinking, not through an excess of it.

In time of this grave national danger, when all excess income should go to win the war, no American citizen ought to have a net income, after he has paid his taxes, of more than $25,000 a year.

If you own a rug you own too much.

A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it.

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.

People, heed my warning: That stuff is Specials Olympics in a pint glass. You think they are harmless and not very strong, and the next thing you know it is an hour later and you are in the bathroom of the bar with your pants off, surrounded by five girls, giving your boxers to a bachelorette party because one of the girls is cute and told you that you had a nice butt. Be forewarned. - from the Austin Road Trip story

Let us remark, by the way, that the hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. This hatred would involve the hatred of the arts.

That idea would be embarrassing because there is something excessive about it, it would take to much energy to defend (while the best possible progressive idea, so to speak, defends itself)...