Quotes About Excess

High living can lead to low feelings

Life, then will, always contain an inevitable surplus, a margin of the gratuitous, a realm in which there is always more than we need: more things, more impressions, more memories, more habits, more words, more happiness, more unhappiness.

Besides, have you seen the price on a good bottle of scotch? Good Lord, I almost fainted.

This obsession you have with funnel cake isn't healthy,

Mrs. Bright cut another slice of the rich, dark cake. It was Mindy's fourth, counting dessert at home. But Mrs. Bright's layer cakes were, Mindy felt sure, the best in the world. Where else did you find the layers of icing almost as thick as the layers of cake?

Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough.

He who buys what he needs not, sells what he needs.

Richey currently smokes 50 cigarettes a day, having started two weeks ago. "Whenever I do something, I like to do it a lot," he explains back at the hotel. "When I was 13, I did a Shakespeare project that was 859 pages long. Everyone else just did six. I just had fuck all else to do but sit in and write...

Sometimes things you think are adding value actually subtract from it. Too much ketchup can ruin the fries. Value is about balance.

much of a muchness.

Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.

In those palaces, sound is preferred to sense, and the care of the body to that of the mind.

Los antiguos griegos lo llamaban la tragedia del hibris. El rey que peca de exceso de orgullo recibe el castigo de los dioses.

most people found it hard to know what to do other than eat and drink around the clock in a conscientious drive to fill as many recycling bags as possible.

Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted.

más mata un exceso de fe que una buena espada, porque para esgrimir la espada hace falta valor y experiencia, mientras la fe ciega puede ser cosa de cobardes e ignorantes

One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.

all extremes are pernicious in various ways.

Regardez moi ce petit corps maigre, ce lendemain d'orgie ambulant.

I've seen disgusting excess in business, and I've seen disgusting excess in Washington. But at the same time, I've certainly learned that Washington matters and that you can't ignore it, especially when you get into telecom.

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.

Having a Hummer is stupid. It's stupid to waste that much gas. It's stupid to waste that much money on gas. It's stupid to parade your insecurities on public roads. Hummers are stupid-looking.

Our houses, shops, and factories waste gigantic amounts of energy, often in the form of excess heat. How do we slash this waste? The answer is fairly simple: with a smart thermal water grid.

Gluttony is wrong. It's wasteful.