Quotes About Excess

Overstuffing ourselves with food or drinking until we get drunk or getting wrapped up in the affections of an adulterous relationship are all desperate attempts to silence the cries of a hungry soul.

Eating in excess is a sin.

On the surface it appears that all we're talking about is food and the amount we consume. In reality, there is a more serious issue at the root of gluttony. Overstuffing ourselves with food or drinking until we get drunk or

Two words that characterize misplaced worship or lust are secret excess.

And yet, here in the wilderness, I live out the dream of all of the wealthy and the powerful: to be able to consume continually without depletion.

Everyone knew how they dripped with perfume, were corrupt from soft living.

I'm going to drink till when I cut myself whiskey runs out. What's the good of blood when you can have whiskey?

Half by desipience, half by proclivity, he had come to live in a world where the only significant leisure activities were coupling and consuming. His batrachian lips pursed into a smile, and he dug again into the honey.

No es el poco saber lo que genera necesariamente la ignorancia: saber demasiado, o querer saber demasiado, puede producir el mismo resultado.

Anything done to excess can become a means to numb the pain of our unresolved past.

Greed is a strange animal

He was over there making Yes album covers, and here I was, with my gaudy Trump Towers of rock junk.

Give me women, wine, and snuff Until I cry out 'hold, enough!' You may do so sans objection Till the day of resurrection; For bless my beard thy aye shall be My beloved Trinity.

I think poetry should surprise by a fine excess, and not by singularity; it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

When the pig is over-roasted, Huzza for folly O! And the cheese is over-toasted, Huzza for folly O!

All crisis have involved debt that, in one fashion or another, has become dangerously out of scale in relation to the underlying means of payment.

The Reichman brothers, with Robert Campeau the Canadian gift to financial excess, are indubitably broke with depressive effect on the banks that were captured by their euphoric mood.

Hospitals, like every other industry, have gotten more efficient by cutting costs, which means virtually no excess capacity—on a per capita basis the United States has far fewer hospital beds than a few decades ago. Indeed, during a routine influenza season, usage of respirators rises to nearly 100 percent; in a pandemic, most people who needed a mechanical respirator probably would not get one.

Antigen drift can create epidemics. One study found nineteen discrete, identifiable epidemics in the United States in a thirty-three-year period—more than one every other year. Each one caused between ten thousand and forty thousand "excess deaths" in the United States alone—an excess over and above the death toll usually caused by the disease. As a result influenza kills more people in the United States than any other infectious disease, including AIDS.

I detest so much ... those persons, who insist upon telling you everything - who labor every point, as the lawyers say, as if they thought all excellence consisted in length.

I think if you ask what people really mean by happiness today, it is the experience of unlimited consumption - the kind of thing Mr. Huxley described in "Brave New World."

If you would rise, shun luxury, for luxury lowers and degrades.

Too much of a good thing can be taxing.

Too much of a good thing is wonderful.