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Quotes About Excess

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.
~ Mark Twain
When our bed is made, it's covered in 40 pillows-like we're stockpiling ammo for the global pillow fight.
~ Jim Gaffigan
We drink and we die and continue to drink.
~ Denis Leary
Always be drunk ... Get drunk militantly. Just get drunk.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities.
~ Oscar Wilde
Hmm... Death by mini bar, how glamorous.
~ Rupert Everett
I live on shameless flattery...and vodka...but the two usually go hand in hand.
~ Unknown
Yes, from drinking too much beer and generally being a tyrannical egomaniac.
~ Unknown
Christmas itself may be called into question, If carried so far it creates indigestion.
~ Unknown
It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.
~ Unknown
I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth-I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.
~ Henry James
No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or as good as drink.
~ Unknown
I was in for 10 hours and had 40 pints - beating my previous record by 20 minutes.
~ George Best
I saw a notice that said Drink Canada Dry and I've just started.
~ Brendan Behan
In Beverly Hills...they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows.
~ Woody Allen
The superfluous, a very necessary thing.
~ Voltaire
I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
~ Imelda Marcos
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
~ Oscar Wilde
I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.
~ Oliver Reed
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
~ Pierre de Beaumarchais
The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Humans have these notions of power, control, hierarchy, greed, anger, envy, lust, etc. It really is quite bizarre where these tendencies lead us. We have human billionaires on planet earth who choose to gather more and more wealth at the expense of everyone else. But why? Once all of a person's human needs have been supplied, to unimaginable levels of luxury, what is the point of having more? To have power and control over other humans?
~ Unknown
They ranged from bleakly depressing (due to an excess of realism) to highly unlikely (due to an excess of optimism).
~ Martha Wells
Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.
~ Martin Amis