Quotes About Excess

Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools than scholars, and enough to spare for government besides.

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

What is too much? There is no such thing!

Surfeits of happiness are fatal.

Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness.

Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.

I would definitely say pleasure is not happiness. Because I think I kill pleasure. Like I take too much of it in, and therefore make it un-pleasurable, like too much coffee, and you're miserable.

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

I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.

An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.

Of course, we all need to have basic necessities met, such as good health care, good food, good education and good housing. But what is good? Having too much is bad, as having too little is also bad.

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.

Karachi has had an overdose of history, too much has happened.

I have way too many candles. Theres always a candle burning at home.

Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder would be if the water did not fall.

Promise me one thing: don't take me home until I'm drunk - very drunk indeed.

A real Rembrandt hung in a millionaire's home elevator would undoubtedly make for kitsch.

I have been drunk now for over two weeks.

Wooden ships are a hippie dream, capsized in excess if you know what I mean.

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.

Why is humanity so excessive in the way it does things? The golden mean seems out of fashion.

Cocaine is God's way of telling you you are making too much money.

Spaghetti... I can't eat spaghetti, there's too many of them. No matter how hungry I am, 1,000 of something is too many. I'll have 1,000 pieces of noodles.