Quotes About Excess

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!

If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!

One more drink and I'll be under the host.

And if 'saturation' means that one simply could not absorb or contain one single drop more, why does 'saturation' not bring with it a connotation of satisfaction, either in concept, or in experience?

Don't tell the beloved, you are I and I am you, say the opposite of that: we are two guests of an excess, fugitive cloud.

los excesos de generosidad llevan a mecenas y filántropos a la ruina, de igual manera que la valentía, o la audacia, solo son exigibles ante la inevitable presencia de la muerte.

She tried to persuade them to confine their tributes to flowers and sweets, which had at least the merit of mortality; but she was never successful, and the house was gradually filled with a collection of foot-warmers, cushions, clocks, screens, barometers and vases, a constant repetition and a boundless incongruity of useless but indestructible objects.

In vain the young man gave him details of all his obscenities with his women, M. de Charlus was only struck by how little they amounted to. For that matter that was not only the result of insincerity, for nothing is more limited than vice. In that sense one can really use a common expression and say that one is always turning in the same vicious circle.

The humanist, who read too much, ate too much. He quoted and burped, and these two complaints were equally repugnant to his neighbor, a self-made aristocrat, Madame Lenoir.

Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss.

For kunnskap er som mat, og måtehold må til så man kun inntar slikt et mål som sinnet lett kan romme, overflod er byrdefullt, og vender visdom snart til dårskap, slik som næring blir til vind.

Most of us are moving through such an undergrowth of excess that we cannot sense the shape of ourselves any more.

Anyway, I might have just gone on about porn too long.

God damn it, Thomas said as he sat down at the table, carrying a tray so piled with food that it was a miracle he could even lift it. Aren't we all just too good-looking for words.

American cities are like badger holes, ringed with trash--all of them--surrounded by piles of wrecked and rusting automobiles, and almost smothered in rubbish. Everything we use comes in boxes, cartons, bins, the so-called packaging we love so much. The mountain of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use.

He drank too much when he could get it, ate too much when it was there, talked too much all the time.

The mountains of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use. In this, if no other way, we can see the wild an reckless exuberance of our production, and waste seems to be the index.

The gilded chairs covered with their worn tapestry were set about stiffly like too many servants with nothing to do.

I wanta buy stuff. Stuff I don't need... Stuff settin' out there, you jus' feel like buyin' it whether you need it or not. -Uncle John

Having too many THINGS, he says, [Americans] spend their hours and money on the couch searching for a soul. A strange species we are. We can stand anything God and Nature throw at us save only plenty. If I wanted to destroy a nation, I would give it too much and I would have it on its knees, miserable, greedy and sick.

Coming in from his work, he gorged himself on fried food and went to bed and to sleep in the resulting torpor.

The mountains of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use.

De todos los animales de la creación el hombre es el único que bebe sin tener sed, come sin tener hambre y habla sin tener nada que decir.

Funny thing. I wanta buy stuff. Stuff I don't need.