Quotes About Excess

I used to eat, like, a whole Entenmann's cake at one time with a half-gallon of milk.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.

The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude.

Yes, we are overcharged for everything nowadays. I should fancy that the real tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self-denial. Beautiful sins, like beautiful things, are the privilege of the rich.

Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.

I am dying beyond my means

Alas, I'm dying beyond my means

All excess, as well as renunciation, brings its own punishment.

She is a peacock in everything but beauty.

we live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities;

standing tall on his own hind legs in the cockpit of a fifty-foot black cigarette boat with a silver Uzi in one hand and a magnum of smack in the other, always running ninety miles an hour with no lights and howling Old Testament gibberish at the top of his bleeding lungs.…

I wonder the food didn't turn to ashes in our mouths! Eggs! Muffins! Sardines! All wrung from the bleeding lips of the starving poor! Oh, I say! What a beastly idea!... Jeeves came in to clear away, and found me sitting among the ruins. It was all very well for Comrade Butt to knock the food, but he had pretty well finished the ham; and if you had shoved the remainder of the jam into the bleeding lips of the starving poor it would hardly have made them sticky.

He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and forgotten to say 'when'!

Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough.

To sum up, then, fundamentalism is neither religion in excess nor politics in disguise. It is an attempt to preserve a particular kind of hierarchy based on coalition, when this is threatened by the perception of cheap and therefore likely defection.

Excess is essential to the production of austerity.

Only at dawn should a man awake from excess - at dawn agleam with red and sorrowful resolve.

And didst thou imbibe mighty potions from the fruit of the grape (...)? And hast thou one Ache, this morning (...) appertaining unto Head, and much repentance in thy Soul forsooth?

a society devoted to self-destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.

I could almost set down as many extravagant things done in the excess of their joy as of their grief; but that would be to lessen the value of it.

In 1976, the average supermarket stocked 9,000 unique products; today that number has ballooned to 40,000 of them, yet the average person gets 80%–85% of their needs in only 150 different supermarket items. That means that we need to ignore 39,850 items in the store.

it just sat there hour after hour pushing the button and giving itself jolts of pleasure. It passed up food, it passed up sex.

The civilized want people to make their living individually, and they want them to live separately, behind locked doors—one family to a house, each house fully stocked with refrigerators, television sets, washing machines, and so on.

The old man had been tanned by the light of too many beer signs, and it just goes to show that you can't live on three packs of Chesterfields and a fifth of bourbon a day without starting to drift far too fuckin' wide in the turns.