Quotes About Excess

On no trip before or since have I carried more alcohol than undergarments.)

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

Desserts are like mistresses. They are bad for you. So if you are having one, you might as well have two.

She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide.

Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one's belt buckled.

When we get more houses than we can live in, more cars than we can ride in, more food than we can eat ourselves, the only way of getting richer is by cutting off those who don't have enough.

I can't eat more than six hundred dollars worth of food.

SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.

Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.

A country like America has twice as much food on its shop shelves and in its restaurants than is actually required to feed the American people.

At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.

Gluttony is not a secret vice.

She knows no difference 'twixt head and privities who devours immense oysters at midnight.

Brandy and water spoils two good things.

Alcohol is the devil and I need Chinese food.

The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.

Serve this dish with much too much wine for your guests, along with some cooked green vegetables and a huge salad. You will be famous in about half an hour.

To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.

The dinosaurs's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.

I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas - fat, drugged, and completely out of it.

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

Drunkenness is deplorably destructive, but her demurer sister Gluttony destroys a hundred to her one.

A full Belly brings forth every Evil.

I do not drink more than a sponge.