Every day you waste is one you can never make up. – George Allen
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
Riches are for spending. – Francis Bacon
Lets not quibble! Im 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, Id rather be strongly wrong than weakly right. – Tallulah Bankhead
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
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
The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom. – William Blake
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
To go too far is as bad as to fall short. – Confucius
The biggest waste of water in the country is when you spend half a pint and flush two gallons. – Prince Philip Edinburgh
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
Willful waste brings woeful want. – Thomas Fuller
I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, its so petty. – Imelda Marcos
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
The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity. – Thomas Love Peacock
We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day. – William Shakespeare
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
