Quotes About Excess

Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more and more.

Sex is like money; only too much is enough.

The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.

In a way, gluttony is an athletic feat, a stretching exercise.

I stand there sipping and savoring for over ten minutes, thinking of the man I read about who weighed six hundred pounds from drinking vast amounts of tap water.

Son of a whore, God damn you! can you tell A peerless peer the readiest way to Hell? I've outswilled Bacchus, sworn of my own make Oaths would fright Furies, and make Pluto quake; I've swived more whores more ways than Sodom's

A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.

All surfeit is the father of much fast.

We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.

Fridge full of food - Nothing to eat. Wardrobe full of clothes - Nothing to wear. Internet full of sites - only on Facebook.

Life is a perpetual drunkenness; the pleasure passes, but the headache remains.

Sometimes people who want more than they can handle end up losing everything altogether. Greed and selfishness will get you nowhere in life

I had already drunk a good deal of port wine, and if I now asked for more it was not so much with a view to the comfort which the additional glasses would bring me as an effect of the comfort produced by the glasses that had gone before.

Here people was once used to be honourable: now they are all bad; they have kept one goodness: that they are greatest boozers.

Pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.

down too much beef jerky. What he'd really been

He used to raise a storm in a teapot.

I love heavily tattooed women. I imagine their lives are filled with sensuality and excess, madness and generosity, impulsive natures and fights. They look like they have endured much pain and sadness, yet have the ability to transcend all of it by documenting it on the body

I'm very drunk and I intend on getting still drunker before this evening's over.

Los Angeles: city that was nothing but a slot machine dispensing plastic toys.

Let them eat cake.

There was something aggressive in her that always went too far. She had thrown a marcasite egg at her lover's window once, a green egg she particularly valued. She had stayed in this house too long. She had fucked the Director. She had let her breasts hang out before Homer. She had gone too far. No doubt if she had children she would neglect them.

I burned too bright. I saw too much.

cigarettes he smoked. As if he were the Duke of