Quotes About Excess

The road to hell is paved with the pursuit of volume. Volume leads to marginal products, marginal customers, and greatly increased managerial complexity.

Two drinks a day. Two drinks a day. TWO DRINKS A DAY! It doesn't work! Not when you want eleven, and not when you start shopping for wine glasses in the vase department at Bloomingdales.

Trump abuses every privilege in the same way. It's kind of like King George. Take a legal concept and then stretch it beyond all recognition, and that's what you have Trump doing.

Award shows in general are just lame excuses to stroke the egos of millionaires, but the 'ESPY's' are an especially embarrassing example.

I have too many clothes, I have too many options.

Once upon a time, fashion was complex, and ostentatious was considered better.

I'm guilty of going to a fitting, then going out to buy the same outfit. It's been a problem for my bank account!

There's something that's delightful about things getting bigger and more over-the-top. Sometimes it's empty, and other times, it's just fun.

There is always over-the-top drama in television.

A capacity for going overboard is a requisite for a full-grown mind.

I do tend to overdo everything.

Fame is a thing where people can overdo it and get a big head.

Sometimes when you're young and a little more immature, you can overdo things or not really have your legs under you.

An overflow of good converts to bad.

Because I love shopping, my house is overflowing with clothes. Most of them were bought by myself.

Achievement was worthy of praise and honor, but excessive achievement was pernicious and a threat to the state.

Achievement was worth of praise and honor, but excessive achievement was pernicious and a threat to the state. However great a citizen might become, however great he might wish to become, the truest greatness of all still belonged to the Roman Republic itself

When you're an ant, a tree ant . . . a soldier tree ant, you just live for those team-building moments when you and your tree ant soldier buddies can donate excess concentrated formic acid into something that really isn't expecting it.

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice

Las Vegas is the only town in the world whose skyline is made up neither of buildings, like New York, nor of trees, like Wilbraham, Massachusetts, but signs.

So there we were shooting Jack Daniels into our veins, like what the fuck we can just drink it.

But what everybody always loved Mötley Crüe for was being a fucking decadent band: for being able to walk in a room and inhale all the alcohol, girls, pills, and trouble in sight.

Favorite food? Blues (speed). Miscellaneous likes? Birds. Professional ambition? To smash one hundred drum kits. Personal ambition? To stay young forever. There you have it, the world of Keith Moon effectively encapsulated in a few choice words. Straightforward hedonistic pleasures, cheerfully destructive tendencies, and an unattainable goal, except in the words that Townshend had just written and which Moon alone would live up/down to: 'Hope I die before I get old.

any strength overused ultimately becomes a liability.