Quotes About Excess

So for me, my vice and big challenge is coffee intake. I drink black, organic coffee, but I drink way too much.

Moliere exaggerates common vices of mankind: lust, greed, misanthropy, hypocrisy. We all have a touch of these.

I have forty-six cookbooks. I have sixty-eight takeout menus from four restaurants. I have one hundred and sixteen soy sauce packets. I have three hundred and eighty-two dishes, bowls, cups, saucers, mugs and glasses. I eat over the sink. I have five sinks, two with a view.

All the truly enjoyable things in life are invariably bad for you—and they're even better when done to excess.

What it lacks in prostitution, it makes up for in drugs and public urination.

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess, neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.

He who laughs loudest has a high probability of being extremely inebriated.

Taxes for people with too much damned time on their hands.

I could see that between the two regimes, the Pahlavis must now seem infinitely preferable to the reality of the Islamic Republic. If oppression is a dish that must be served with a side order, then let it be glamour and excess rather than religion and hypocrisy.

Et ça jaillit comme dans un cauchemar, je dégueule des litres de vodka, des litres de champagne, mes illusions perdues, les fantômes qui me hantent, et ça gicle sur le bitume noir avec un bruit d'explosion liquide et sale qui se répercute dans ma tête comme la sentence fatale de mon indignité.

I eat too much. I drink to much. A greedy selfish such-n-such. But when I wrap my turban on my mind is clear, I'm 'Baba Lon'.

Sofas 'twas half a sin to sit upon, So costly were they; carpets, every stitch Of workmanship so rare, they make you wish You could glide o'er them like a golden fish.

No animal ever invented anything so bad as drunkenness — or so good as drink.

THE Right Honorable Edward Junius Carsington, Earl of Hargate, had five sons, which was three more than he needed.

It was not enough. It was too much. It was everything.

We followed him through the wealthy splendor of the house. Hardwood floors. Custom carved woodworking. Statues. Fountains. Suits of armor. Original painting, one of them a van Gogh. Stained-glass windows. Household staff in formal uniform. I kept expecting to come across a flock of peacocks roaming the halls, or maybe a pet cheetah in a diamond-studded collar.

The path of excess leads to the palace of wisdom," he said, and turned for the door.

When in doubt, pig out!

Over three nights they went through more than two hundred cases of beer, more kegs than they could count, and enough hard liquor to embalm a herd of moose.

Faced with an excess of beauty the mind can often only drink.

That's Catholicism for you. A perpetual war between repression and excess.

He looked round once more at the piled boxes, glass dishes, fondants, ribbons, rosettes, cracknels, violet creams, mocha blanc , dark rum truffle, chili squares, lemon parfait, and coffee cake on the countertop with an expression of slightly blank amazement.

She had never been a pretty crier. She sobbed the way she did everything else - with passion and excess.

Being drunk is a beautiful thing sometimes.