Quotes About Excess

To a nonstop world, the Rule of Benedict brings balance and simplicity. In the face of a complex world with the twenty-four-hour workdays and constant motion, the Rule asks for a life that deals with a little bit of everything in proper measure: work, prayer, solitude, relationships. The Rule, in other words, is an antidote to excess and to human dwarfism. A proverb says, "Wherever there is excess, something is lacking." The Rule of Benedict mandates a measured life.

Was it all worth it? The King might have said that without his extravagant spending, the luxurious experiences for which his country is still celebrated would not have come into existence. The businessman might have added that without it, tourism would not be France's number-one industry today.

If you have more than a couple of kids, you're not parents—you're hoarders. And hoarding is a disorder, not a gift.

I hate Hollywood fund-raisers. I am so bored going to a twenty-five million dollar house to hear a mogul say, "Good news, everyone. Tonight we've raised almost twelve thousand dollars!" You paid your gay hustler more than that, you cheap thing. Why not spare all of us the canapés, small talk and crème brûlée and just write a damn check?

I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate--and volatile--I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry. I shall be rampant.

I think there may be some kind of law about a woman buying more than she can carry.

The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick.

As dawn leaks into the sky it edits out the stars like excess punctuation marks, deleting asterisks and periods, commas, and semi-colons, leaving only unhinged thoughts rotating and pivoting, and unsecured words.

Quand je bois, je bois trop, quand je fume, je me bousille, quand j'aime, je perds la raison et quand je travaille, je me tue...Je ne sais rien faire normalement sereinement, je... - Et quand tu détestes? - Ça je sais pas... - Je croyais que tu me détestais, moi? - Pas encore, sourit-elle, pas encore...Tu verras quand ça arrivera...Tu verras la différence...

Her cupboards are crammed with Cappuccino mix. No one needs Cappuccino mix. It's not diginified. She watched 'Super Size Me' and went straight to McDonald's. She did the Atkins Diet, "but with potatoes.

It is not only that bodies can leave their residue in the things they produce (an insight that object studies has taught us), but also that objectness reveals the divergent, layered, and sometimes annihilating gestures that can make up personhood. More than memorializing bodies that might otherwise not be remembered, Li's porcelain woman explores what it would mean to instantiate through excess materiality the dematerialized nonbody.

Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.

She dropped it in her lap, picked up a cup and proceeded to consume the entire contents of a jug of wine.

A diet is the penalty we pay for exceeding the feed limit.

God in His goodness sent the grapes, to cheer both great and small; little fools will drink too much, and great fools not at all.

Man's greed to obtain something for nothing has never yet been able to content itself with a moderate profit.

Nothing gets a party started like some 110 per cent proof Ouzo from Kavos circa 2002.

When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, no worthiness.

The cream and hot butter mingled and overflowed separating each glucose bead of caviar from its fellows, capping it in white and gold.

Ought we to be drunk every night? Sebastian asked one morning. Yes, I think so. I think so too.

Ought we to be drunk every night?" Sebastian asked one morning. "Yes, I think so." "I think so too.

Tead, kui ma vaatan seda oma suurt kinniseotud jalga, siis ma ei saa lahti tundest, et mul on podagra, ja see tekitab hirmsat ?šampuseisu.

It was during that term that I began to realise that Sebastian was a drunkard in quite a different sense to myself. I got drunk often, but through an excess of high spirits, in the love of the moment, and the wish to prolong and enchant it; Sebastian drank to escape.

I want to give a really BAD party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there's a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see.