We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
Hannah Arendt
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.
Jean Baudrillard
Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do, and with them everything.
Benjamin Franklin
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
Victor Hugo
The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.
Orison Swett Marden
My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -- it gives a lovely light!
Edna St. Vincent Millay
The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise, neither can they remain young and vigorous. In order to transmute energy to higher and more subtle levels one must first conserve it.
Henry Miller
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
I hold this as a rule of life: Too much of anything is bad.
Terence
Where there is no extravagance there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding.
Oscar Wilde
Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead: excessive grief the enemy to the living.
William Shakespeare
Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.
George F. Will
In every aspect of life, including the economic dimension, we are always challenged to do the right thing. In many cases in the market system, which allows a great deal of latitude for human choice, people can get carried away to excess.
Lee R. Raymond
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca