Excess Quotes

Tis not the eating, nor \'tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess.

John Selden

In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men.

Titus Maccius Plautus

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

Josh Billings

Clogged with yesterday\'s excess, the body drags the mind down with it.

Horace

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

Plato

I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.

Giacomo Casanova

Riches are for spending.

Francis Bacon

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

Samuel Butler

Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he promptly consign to it.

Samuel Butler

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

Prince Philip Edinburgh

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

As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer. When so much general productive exertion is the consequence of luxury, the nation does not care though there are debtors; nay, they would not care though their creditors were there too.

Samuel Johnson

Willful waste brings woeful want.

Thomas Fuller

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.

Thomas Love Peacock

We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.

William Shakespeare
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