Quotes about excess

"We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance."

Arendt, Hannah on excess   

"Riches are for spending."

Bacon, Francis on excess   

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"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."

Bankhead, Tallulah on excess   

"We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society of excrescence. The boil is growing out of control, recklessly at cross purposes with itself, its impacts multiplying as the causes disintegrate."

Baudrillard, Jean on excess   

"The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom."

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

Butler, Samuel on excess   

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"To go too far is as bad as to fall short."

Confucius on excess
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"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit."

Maugham, W. Somerset on excess   

"Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments."

Plato on excess
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"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."

Sontag, Susan on excess   

"I hold this as a rule of life: Too much of anything is bad."

Terence on excess
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"Nothing in excess."

Unknown, Source on excess   

"Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses."

Will, George F. on excess