145 Quotes About Excess

Everything is in excess except money, thereof, it should be well managed.

Money undergoes a conversion when one has more of it than is strictly necessary. When there is enough of it to move beyond the strict survival mode, money goes in search of beauty. That is to say, in search of the abstract and the imaginary. Just like poetry, which is the distillation of an excess of language. Too much money and too many words tend toward the poetic.

I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate--and volatile--I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry. I shall be rampant.

Most of us try to do too much because we are secretly afraid we will not be able to do anything at all.

Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody.

Before you learn to make perfect dough, you will add excess water a few times. To find the sweet spot of anything, you shouldn't be afraid of doing it in excess.

Too often we assume that God has increased our income to increase our standard of living, when his stated purpose is to increase our standard of giving. (Look again at 2 Corinthians 8:14 and 9:11).

Whenever we have excess, giving should be our natural response. It should be the automatic decision, the obvious thing to do in light of Scripture and human need.

It is human nature to overdo a thing until one gets sick of it.