Quotes About Excess

Devil's Food?" You can only eat so much white cake, my friend.

You can have a table full of gourmet food, but the minute you put a box of Entenmann's doughnuts out, that's all people are gonna talk about.

Although he never speaks of how or what or why, I know that his childhood was difficult, that his parents broke his heart. Books and excess poundage are his insulation against pain.

Greed is taking more than you need to feed. Avarice is hoarding, and stockpiling stolen, rotten goods.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

We must defend freedom of expression and if I had to chose, I prefer the excess of caricature over the excess of censure.

In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.

We had too much camel in the fridge, so I tried some ways to preserve it.

Never order food in excess of your body weight.

Is she fat? Her favorite food is seconds

Poor, darling fellow-he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.

Your body is the baggage you must carry through life. The more excess the baggage, the shorter the trip.

I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer.

Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.

Es demasiado odio junto para que sea verdadero.

A bottle of perfume brought in more foreign revenue than a barrel of petroleum. A Paris frock was worth more than ten tons of coal. These very equations were evidence, in the eyes of some people, of the indefensible extravagance of haute couture.

For Chandler it was all or nothing. Or, to hear one of his characters say it, "I'm an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard.

It's really a simple rule; you drink a lot, you piss a lot. Robert Mitchum, Mitch to pals, drank a lot. He also fought a lot and screwed a lot. He also pissed a lot.

Like pornography, junk [food] might be tough to define but you know it when you see it.

It made Daniel think. The people who had the least were the most willing to share. He outlined a dictum that he would believe the rest of his life: the more people have, the less the give. Similarly, generous cultures produce less waste because excess is shared, whereas stingy nations fill their landfills with leftovers.

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.