Quotes About Excess

Most of my subject matter was all kind of, like, party stuff, jewelry and cars. It was really just, you know, shallow.

We have had two chickens in every pot, two cars in every garage, and now we have two headaches for every aspirin.

You ride in a limousine the first time, it's a big thrill but after that it's just a stupid car.

There's enough Ferraris here to eat a plate of spaghetti.

Here is a new car, a new iPhone. We buy. We discard. We buy again. In recent years, we've been doing it faster.

Half a million dollars just to upgrade the car show I aint even detonate the bombs in the arsenal

I have 18 cars, but I never had a Rolls-Royce.

It is the nature of humankind to idealize, to indulge in excessive praise as well as unjust condemnation.

What is called gluttony in one man is a healthy appetite in someone else.

Hay demasiados dedos en los botones

There is little passion for anything except pleasure and comfort and security. Indeed, passion is confused with fanaticism.

Greed for the things money can buy ("natural wealth") is a bad thing, but it is finite. You can only enjoy a finite amount of food or drink, houses or cars, or even sex. But greed for money ("artificial wealth") is infinite. You can always want more. It's like a drug: you have to have higher and higher doses of it to give you the same "buzz" you used to get from little bits of it. And this never stops. It is Hell's false infinite.

desire will be at rest, not only our desire for God but all our desires; so that the joy of the blessed is full to perfection—indeed, over-full, since they will obtain more than they were capable of desiring

2. Greed, or acquisitive desire.

I'm so drunk my head doesn't even need my neck.

No one with seven books in New York City settles for one piece of ass. That's what you get for a couplet.

As long as we are engaged in this orgy of unnecessary terminology and notation…

One of the unfortunate things about greed ... is that, in the end, it will consume itself.

Do you think there can be such a thing as too much happiness?

Boxes of records made me think that LPs should be outlawed or at least limited to five per person, and I soon came to despise the type who packs even her empty shampoo bottles, figuring she'll sort things out and throw them away once she's settled into her new place.

bowl. It was disgusting to think that this was what a gumdrop might look like in your stomach, and it was insulting to be told not to take too much of something you didn't really want in the first place.

Were they to charge you ten cents per napkin, they would undoubtedly make them much thinner so you'd need to waste even more in order to fight back the piping hot geyser forever spouting from the little hole conveniently located in the lid of your cup.

Because I am both a glutton and a masochist, my standard complaint, 'That was so bad,' is always followed by 'And there was so little of it!

The mommy-porn genre currently sweeping the book industry and the Babylonian excess of most television shows probably fall within the historical norm in our culture's sleaze index and are not omens of the imminent collapse of civilization, though if I were not so busy, I might start building an ark.