Quotes About Excess

A good American goes for it, just does it, slakes it, eats it, kills it, the more the better, damn the torpedoes!

Teror merupakan sistem untuk menundukan rakyat, sedang kerakusan berlebihan menjadi tujuan dari pendudukan itu.

Oh, do I know them? I positively swill in their ale.

But now I was a rich man, three things have left me bare; dice, wine, and women, these three have made me poor.

There are three too much and three too little that can bring a fool down: too much spending and too little money; too much talking and too little knowledge; and too much boasting and too little earnings.

Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more and more. —JOHN UPDIKE, The Witches of Eastwick

A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.

For a rich man monogamy is a waste of being rich.

Had I known that coffee could taste so good, I would have gotten drunk on it every day.

The platter could probably sate four starving Ethiopians into a crapulous state.

Let all the strains of joy mingle in my last song---the joy that makes the earth flow over in the riotous excess of the grass, the joy that sets the twin brothers, life and death, dancing over the wide world, the joy that sweeps in with the tempest, shaking and waking all life with laughter, the joy that sits still with its tears on the open red lotus of pain, and the joy that throws everything it has upon the dust, and knows not a word.

It is true that rich people can spend more money than middle class people, but there's this upper limit on what we can spend. I drive a very nice car, but it's only one car. I don't own a thousand, even though I earn a thousand times the median wage. I have a few jackets, not a few thousand.

Most of the energy in North America is just consuming - Wal-Mart, shopping centres, government offices - or personal consumption: houses, cars, flying to Hawaii, gambling in Las Vegas. We could live affluent lifestyles with half as much energy.

There've been times when I've bought a whole pound of cheese and walked down the street and eaten it in one go.

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

Billionaire's shouldn't exist.

I go through money like a bloke with three arms.

My worst buy has always been cars and boats. I used to own two Ferraris, but as much as they're beautiful, they're a waste of money.

There are only so many material things you can have before it becomes boring.

I've got Ferraris coming out me bum.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Excess is success.

There is such a thing as too much fun.

I got sucked real deep into the fame and the money. I was a bachelor and I got sucked into a bad life of partying.