Quotes About Excess

He shared Erica's contempt for all those who tried to fill their holes in such places, all those who felt the key to life was getting enough money to frequent better and more exclusive versions of the very same crapholes. They had sentenced themselves to the chain gang, toiling under the reflective glasses of banker guards as they worked the road in an endless bulimic slog of earning and spending, acquiring, devouring, vomiting up the excess just so they could devour more.

He breakfasted on bloody marys and beer and drank Wild Turkey and Chivas by the tumbler, but he was rarely shit-faced.

An orgy of words, after all, is still an orgy.

Maybe I was drinking and drugging more than I should have done. Well, in fact, I know I was for Black Tie White Noise and Let's Dance.

She was done up like a Christmas tree--over-ripe mouth, beads of mascara thick on her eyelashes, green eyeshadow, a hat with a trailing drape that wound twice around her throat and hung down her back. The only thing missing was a man on a leash.

Honor is Surplus Dignity: Honor, at its simplest, is that excess dignity that must be defended with the knife or sword. Wherever honor is at issue, it comes with a sense that dignity can be lost, and therefore must be constantly defended.

A body of ten ounces raised in any scale may serve as a proof, that the counterbalancing weight exceeds ten ounces; but can never afford a reason that it exceeds a hundred.

I fear we face a new kind of man along with this new kind of affluence. When lands meant wealth, men could perhaps have enough. Too much land was difficult to govern. But with paper money, more is simply more. In France, you know, where they suffer from their own financial mania, they have a word - the millionaire - to denote men whose wealth is measured in the millions. Millions. It is inconceivable, but there are more than a few men who hold this title.

The cistern contains: The fountain overflows.

Space tourism is God's way of telling you you aren't spending enough on lap dances, baccarat and cocaine.

I am trying to get right with God. I'm sort of making a statement about the excessiveness.

But God never seems capable of moderation

Why not begin operating under the idea that God has given us excess, not so we could have more, but so we could give more?

Too much of a good thing is just about right

A little of what you like does you good. But you can have too much of a good thing.

the Empire State Building was tall. So what? Just proved New York builders didn't know when to stop at a good story.

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

As frost, raised to its utmost intensity, produces the sensation of fire, so any good quality, overwrought and pushed to excess, turns into its own contrary.

People may have too much of a good thing: Full as an egg of wisdom thus I sing.

I was very famous as a young man and I celebrated both the good and bad times with drinking.

There's a whole segment of the population with a mentality that bases good times on where they can go and what they can buy.

the excess of all good things is mischievous.

I've always thought of this city as Disneyland for adults. ... There's no danger of Las Vegas expiring from an excess of good taste.

Abundance, even of good things, prevents them from being valued