Quotes About Excess

We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.

Sex and drugs and rock and rollIs all my brain and body needSex and drugs and rock and rollIs very good indeed.

But I am greedy for life. I do too much of everything all the time. Suddenly one day my heart will fail. The Iron Crab will get me as it got my father. But I am not afraid of The Crab. At least I shall have died from an honourable disease. Perhaps they will put on my tombstone "This Man Died from Living Too Much."

But I am greedy for life. I do too much of everything all the time. Suddenly one day my heart will fail. The Iron Crab will get me as it got my father. But I am not afraid of The Crab. At least I shall have died from an honourable disease. Perhaps they will put on my tombstone. 'This Man Died from Living Too Much'.

It's just that I'd rather die of drink than of thirst.

It seemed to Rebus that the more expensive something was, the less of it there always seemed to be: tiny little hi-fi systems, watches without numbers, the translucent Dior ankle-socks on Michael's feet.

If wine is the enemy of religion, I shall devour the enemy of religion.

Cuando oración, rituales y vida ascética son solo los medios para la autoindulgencia, son más dañinos que beneficiosos.

Las Vegas is a very strange place. It's a place of broken dreams.

There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.

I wanna be the girl with the most cake.

I want to be the girl with the most cake.

In an era of too much information, the need for discernment and wisdom will be greater than ever.

An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.

La naturaleza es más barroca; siempre le sobra o le falta algo, como al elefante o a la jirafa.

y en cuanto a asegurarme la vida, sería muy difícil: fumo demasiado escribo demasiado amo demasiado

abundance proffered too soon led to lassitude and indolence, a wandering dissatisfaction.

It is true that William Blake said that "The Road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom," but they didn't have angel dust back then.

Greed is an addiction. It's a machine that must constantly be fed.

I saw a human pyramid once. It was very unnecessary.

Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.

Man has learned how to challenge both Nature and art to become the incitements to vice! His very cups he has delighted to engrave with libidinous subjects, and he takes pleasure in drinking from vessels of obscene form!

The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave.

In general, comedians are attracted to vice.