Quotes About Excess

Ease, luxury, and plenty are not shameful, but they are not happiness.

be spared. There would be an extravagant smorgasbord

The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.

While many of us grew up being taught to make sure we got enough protein, the fact is we have gotten too much.

When there is too much information to sustain any theory, information becomes essentially meaningless.

A little wine is good for the soul." "A lot is better.

Artists; those savage beasts that can't get enough of too much.

Nature, far from being logical, 'is perhaps entirely the excess of itself', smeared ash and flame upon zero, and zero is immense.

Fursey was now eating—and drinking, always drinking—at Mulstan's expense, not her uncle's. The gift of kings, her mother said: to make others pay.

Every belt buckle must be gold, every drape silver, every veil like gossamer.

The women's hall, if anything, was even bawdier than the men's. Veils were askew and sleeves were tucked in belts. Arddun and Gwladus could barely keep up with filling the cups and Hunric's wife, inarticulate with mead, was shaking a broken-stringed lyre as though it were a choking baby.

Idéologie de l'homme moderne: acheter le plus d'objets possibles; réaliser le plus de voyages possibles; copuler le plus grand nombre de fois possible.

Pamper a tomato, overfeed it, overwater it and you will get a Paris Hilton of a tomato.

avaricia, la cual, como es sabido, tiene hambre de lobo: cuanto más devora, menos se sacia.

It is popular now to say that Hollywood is a state of mind more than an actual place, since the Boulevard itself has become as tasteless and as subject to bad elements as that other den of American excess, Times Square

Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt: It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.

I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.

Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt: It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.

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.

Excessively passionate characters have a tendency to behave poorly.

After a little time they all began to smoke, the Pearl included, though she threw away much more of her cigar than she consumed

Perhaps we don't respect things because we have so many of them.

Dispomos de um excesso de tempo que nos acaba por faltar a partir do momento em que já passou.