Excess Quotes

Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Tallulah Bankhead

I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.

Imelda Marcos

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.

Orison Swett Marden

[...] certain it is that minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort, and like them, are often successfully cured by remedies in themselves very nauseous and unpalatable.

Charles Dickens

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.

Thomas Love Peacock

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.

Thomas Alva Edison

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

Plato

Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life -- its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness -- conjoin to dull our sensory faculties.

Susan Sontag

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Samuel Butler

The biggest waste of water in the country is when you spend half a pint and flush two gallons.

Prince Philip Edinburgh