Quote #56171
Sex is like money; only too much is enough.
John Updike
About This Quote
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Interpretation
The line is a sardonic epigram about appetite and dissatisfaction. By pairing sex with money—two culturally charged measures of desire, status, and security—it suggests that both operate on a logic of escalation: satisfaction is postponed by the belief that “more” will finally be “enough.” The joke turns on the inversion of a moral commonplace (that moderation suffices) and instead depicts craving as self-renewing. Read this way, the quote critiques consumerist and erotic acquisitiveness alike, implying that the pursuit of pleasure or wealth can become a treadmill where abundance does not resolve longing but intensifies it.



