Quotes About Excess

At barbecues, people just like to eat a lot of meat; it's extraordinary. They eat far more than they normally would at a dinner party.

A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.

Nothing exceeds like excess.

Trollope wrote so many novels and other works that they tend to crowd each other out.

Luxury is a difficult object to describe - it's been the object of hundreds of years of discussion. We definitely don't need it, but it's good for the soul.

Against Knowledge I have, as the light cynic observed of a certain lady's past, only one serious objection - that there is so much of it.

I have a gajillion headbands - yellows, pinks, reds, blues. I'm obsessed.

The big problem in our society is the obsession with maximisation.

For always remember that while it is wrong to use too few, it is often far worse to use too many. - Which Macabre

For always remember that while it is wrong to use too few, it is often far worse to use too many.

after ingurgitating another modicum of the royal booze

Therefore the fiesta is not only an excess, a ritual squandering of the goods painfully accumulated during the rest of the year; it is also a revolt, a sudden immersion in the formless, in pure being. By means of the fiesta society frees itself from the norms it has established. It ridicules its gods, its principles, and its laws: it denies its own self.

There are too many players in this game," said Ram Odin.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.

The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable!

I have gazed so much on beauty that my eyes overflow with it.

You know what a blivet is? What. A blivet is ten pounds of shit in a five pound sack.

The drunk's concern ain't that he's goin to die from drinkin - which he is. It's that he's goin to run out of whiskey fore he gets a chance to do it.

This market way of life promotes addictions to stimulation and obsessions with comfort and convenience.

Instead of trying to create the most enjoyable experience, they unthinkingly worked as much as possible, stockpiling useless treasure." The researchers called this phenomenon "mindless accumulation

It occurred to Liz one day, as she waited on hold for an estimate from a yard service, that her parents' home was like an extremely obese person who could no longer see, touch, or maintain jurisdiction over all of his body; there was simply too much of it, and he—they—had grown weary and inflexible. During

So, after three days of incessant brandy-drinking, he had burned out the youth from his blood, he had achieved this kindled state of oneness with all the world, which is the end of youth's most passionate desire.

As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction