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Every day you waste is one you can never make up.
-George Allen
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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
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Riches are for spending.
-Francis Bacon
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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.
-Tallulah Bankhead
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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
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I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
-Bernard Berenson
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The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
-William Blake
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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
-Samuel Butler
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Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he promptly consign to it.
-Samuel Butler
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To go too far is as bad as to fall short.
-Confucius
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The biggest waste of water in the country is when you spend half a pint and flush two gallons.
-Prince Philip Edinburgh
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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
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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
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Willful waste brings woeful want.
-Thomas Fuller
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
-Victor Hugo
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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
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I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.
-Imelda Marcos
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The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.
-Orison Swett Marden
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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
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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
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The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.
-Thomas Love Peacock
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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
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We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.
-William Shakespeare
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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.
-Susan Sontag
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I hold this as a rule of life: Too much of anything is bad.
-Terence
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Books about Excess
