Quotes About Excess

Now, my maxim would be precisely converse: if you attack with a prospect of superiority, do not grudge employing all the power at your command; excess of victory (14) never yet caused any conqueror one pang of remorse.

But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.

In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

One piece of pie is delicious. Fourteen pieces are obviously nauseating.

In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

That night I'd already had quite a bit to drink. I wandered from bar to bar, until, excessively happy, I was afraid I'd outdo myself: I'd grown too comfortable in my own skin. I was looking for a way to pour some of myself out, before I completely overflowed

I know that my phrases are crude, I write them with too much love, and that love makes up for their faults, but too much love is bad for the work. I'm restless and harsh and despairing. Although I do have love inside me. I just don't know how to use love. Sometimes it tears at my flesh. But when winter comes I give and give and give. The excess of me starts to hurt and when I'm excessive I have to give of myself.

Yours is a strange dream, a strange reverie. No, it's a strange beach; each body is a strange beach, and if you let in the excess emotion you will recall the Atlantic Ocean breaking on our heads.

The only cure for a headache is a hangover.

People buy things they don't need, with money they don't have, to impress people they don't like.

Luxury is a necessity that starts where necessity stops. —COCO CHANEL (ATTRIB.):

Cúpoles la ración de dos copas por estómago: a la segunda quedó abierto el apetito del copeo, y las botellas fueron llegando una tras otra a pedimento de don Sebastián.

And he had learned that pity was insatiable—a false virtue that always craved more suffering to show how limitless and magnificent it could be.

Even nectar is poison if taken to excess.

Both sleep and insomnolency, when immoderate, are bad.

The monster is bigger than the human. It represents abundance—overabundance. ... It has lots of eyes, extra arms, too many teeth. Everything about it is too many and too much.

Cushions and rugs, goblets and trays and half-full decanters cover every surface- all of them in a riot of colours: vermillion and umber, peacock blue and bottle green, gold and damson plum.

Gold fabric and glittering gems are drowning in scarlet.

Kiss me again," he says, drunk and foolish. "Kiss me until I am sick of it.

I]t is the wine that leads me on, the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of his lungs, laugh like a fool – it drives the man to dancing... it even tempts him to blurt out stories better never told.

To alcohol, the cause and solution to all of life's problems.

Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.