Quotes About Excess

You are dehydrated, I said. The result of alcohol taken in excess. But that is the only way to take it. It is the only way to do a man any good.

Capitalism rests precisely on this endless expansion of wants. That is why, for all its success, it remains so unloved. It has given us wealth beyond measure, but has taken away the chief benefit of wealth: the consciousness of having enough.

Too much greed, however, as anything in excess can be, is not good.

The State has a superfluity of testicles, Peersa said with no particular emphasis.

Garbage is usually construed as useless complexity.

You can never have too much coffee", I said He turned and smiled at me. "You think so, but the rest of us get a little OD'ed on your level of caffeine.

A gold chain cut across her forehead with a diamond the size of my thumb in it. More diamonds burned like white fire at her throat. She was absolutely naked except for a sprinkling of gold body glitter, done thick enough on her nipples to make them seem metallic. A diamond anklet glittered on her right ankle. Three gold chains rode low on her hips, and that was it. And I'd complained about my outfit.

Booze and tobacco and lots of sex. It keeps a lad young.

And I saw her as a sad thirtieth child of Valentine that fell, not as Lucifer rebelling against God, but because she too passionately wanted to be united with him! All things in excess become sin.

It is ridiculous that I have so many shoes I don't wear. I worry that they're sitting there, being sad.

Almost everything carried to its logical extreme becomes either depressing or carcinogenic.

Planeta ze swoimi ograniczonymi zasobami jest w stanie zaspokoi? ludzkie potrzeby, ale nie ludzk? chciwo??.

Estas tendencias patológicas (y sobre todo de despilfarro innecesario) del crecimiento exponencial de la producción de bienes y servicios podrían ser diagnosticadas a tiempo —vale decir, reconocidas por lo que son, e incluso inspirar medidas curativas o preventivas— si no fuera por la existencia de otro fenómeno de crecimiento exponencial que desemboca en un exceso de información.

Russia's joy's in the bottle!

He spun out enough toilet paper to vandalize a house and carefully cleaned the seat.

I remembered about the pharma coke, went outside, and nailed a line so pure it was like getting yelled at by God.

Much wants more and loses all.

The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word luxury.

Oil-lamps of filigree and gold illuminated the great room while the profusion of precious objects far exceeded what he had encountered in the hallway. It was an ostentatious display of wealth that bordered on the obscene.

Some things are hard to imagine. Can you conceive of excessive contentment, for example? Or an over pleasant evening? Too much happiness?

Within this culture wealth is measured by one's ability to consume and destroy.

Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.

Too much good taste can be boring

Too much good taste can be very boring.