Quotes About Excess

If the only advantage of affluence were the ability to buy yachts, sports cars, and fancy vacations, inequalities

Trump became a regular at the club and later recounted seeing "things happening there that to this day I have never seen again. I would watch supermodels getting screwed, well-known supermodels getting screwed on a bench in the middle of the room. There were seven of them and each one was getting screwed by a different guy. This was in the middle of the room. Stuff that couldn't happen today because of problems of death." On

The aftertaste of affluence is boredom.

But what I do love about this road is how the gaudy becomes grand, how tastelessness is a way of everyday life

It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice.

Después de agotar los placeres sexuales, era normal que los individuos liberados de las obligaciones morales ordinarias se entregasen a los placeres, más intensos, de la crueldad.

To increase desires to an unbearable level whilst making the fulfillment of them more and more inaccessible: this was the single principle upon which Western society was based.

Se c'è un termine che mi definisce veramente è «troppo». Mi innamoro troppo. Mi appassiono troppo. Mi stanco troppo. Mi arrabbio troppo.

No other African autocrat had proved such a wily survivor. No other president had been presented with a country of such potential, yet achieved so little. No other leader had plundered his economy so effectively or lived the high life to such excess.

The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.

Too much money is as demoralizing as too little, and there's no such thing as exactly enough.

Can we ever have too much of a good thing?

The other danger in becoming involved with culinary delights—and here again the parallels with sex are obvious—is that they can become addictive. It

It's not a holiday until you overdo it!

You come home, and you party. But after that, you get a hangover. Everything about that is negative.

While I chewed on my eleven brioche rolls, I saw the likes of Gen. David Petraeus, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, and that guy from Magic Mike, who also played a hot werewolf and was supposed to have a huge wang. It was an extremely glamorous night.

Extra' was a very American word. Americans seemed to have extras of everything.

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.

And greed will breed harshness and cruelty. And wealth is a maze to confuse. Once a person is warm and well-suppered, how much of such wealth can they use?

I love the excess of Christmas. The shopping season that begins in September, the bad pop star recordings of Christmas carols, the decorations that don't know when to come down.

Looking into reality, you see more, you see superfluous.

Sin is when you knowingly overdo something. But if you do it in moderation, you're still in the safe zone.

The devil is no longer a sinner but a sin addict. Simply, because he has gone beyond the measure. Thus, exceeding all the limitations of sin.