Quotes about Excess
men have come to such a pass that they frequently starve, not for want of necessaries, but for want of luxuries;
- Henry David Thoreau
Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.
- Publilius Syrus
I'm the frosting on America's cake, and tonight I'm willing to let you lick the bowl.
- Stephen Colbert
Both excess and defect are alike prejudicial to moral virtue.
- Aristotle
The lover of God never knows the words "too much." Those who accuse others of loving God or religion too much really do not love God at all, nor do they know the meaning of love.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
The word enough does not exist in Love's vocabulary.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Nothing helps gluttony along so well as eating food you don't have to pay for yourself
- Margaret Atwood
I admit I relish it, this lick of dissipation.
- Margaret Atwood
More than one cigar at a time is excessive smoking.
- Mark Twain
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
- John Henry Newman
Give me women, wine and snuff Until I cry out hold, enough You may do so san objection Till the day of resurrection; For bless my beard then aye shall be My beloved Trinity.
- John Keats
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by Singularity—it should strike the Reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a Remembrance.
- John Keats