Quotes About Excess

Talk about sloppy seconds. Was there such a thing as sloppy thousandths?

She asked, "Was that really your dinner—two hot dogs and a Krispy Kreme doughnut?" "Four doughnuts." "What does your cholesterol look like?" "I guess it's white like what they show in the commercials.

You can have too much of a good thing. It's like when I bought the box set of The Sopranos. I loved the first few, and even though it was still good, after that I just couldn't take any more.

In truth, men speak too much of danger.

Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.

Extravagance is the rich man's pitfall.

The Rich Man's Banquet, which was to last for a decade, had now begun: the feast, it was recognised, went to the greediest.

Surfeit begets insolence, when prosperity comes to a bad man.

Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.

So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough.

The prevailin' weakness of most public men is to Slop Over!.... G. Washington never slopt over.

Men to whom wine had brought death long before lay by springs of wine and drank still, too stupefied to know their lives were past.

The love of wine is a good man's failing.

The must have it now mentality, was man's first step into the gorging of his natural home.

Whenever I have talked to anyone at too great length, I am like a man who has drunk too much, and ashamed, doesn't know where to put himself.

Praise is like ambergrease: a little whiff of it, and by snatches, is very agreeable; but when a man holds a whole lump of it to your nose, it is a stink, and strikes you down.

It is in the habits of lawyers that every accusation appears insufficient if they do not exaggerate it even to calumny; it is thus that justice itself loses its sanctity and its respect amongst men.

I'm carrying the weight of all the useless junk and modern man accumulates.

At the millennium we partied like it was 1999. And then we had a 10 year bathtub tequila hangover, man. Just hugging the metaphorical toilet on a daily basis.

The Plutocracy's insatiable hunger for pixelated information is enough to put a bulimic Pac-Man to shame

There was an Old Man of the East, Who gave all his children a feast; But they all ate so much, and their conduct was such, That it killed that Old Man of the East.

A man of pleasure is a man of pains.

A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''

The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth.