Quotes About Excess

I already have a toothbrush. I don't know why she would buy me another. That woman buys things just to buy things. It's disgusting.

I couldn't help but wonder: are we pushing the idea of carnival too far, and turning everything into entertainment?

We got enough champagne here to start a France.

Leisure tends to corrupt, and absolute leisure corrupts absolutely.

Too much of anything is tiresome. Even the best things.

She was brave from excess of grief

He] went on to say that during all those years he had done nothing at all, that all he had felt had been a need to live, to live actively, violently, noisily, a need to sing, to make music, to roam the woods, to drink a little too much and get involved in a brawl.

Bigger. Biggest ranch. Biggest steer. Biggest houses. Biggest hat. Biggest state. A mania for bigness. What littleness did it hide?

Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.

Gluttony - that's my vice & curse. I want too much of everything. Books... Love... Music... Color & Form... Philosophy... Travel & Adventure... the result of this bestial lust is the indiscriminate and promiscuous splaying of my energies - wanting all, I accomplish nothing; desiring everything, I satisfy nothing and am satisfied by nothing.

There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.

I can't believe I ate the whole thing.

Stuffocation: being overwhelmed by the stuff one has bought or accumulated.

Shopping: The fine art of acquiring things you don't need with money you don't have.

The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

You booze, you cruise, you lose.

A feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees.

Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked.

We have created a manic world nauseous with the pursuit of material wealth. Many also bear their cross of imagined deprivation, while their fellow human beings remain paralyzed by real poverty. We drown in the thick sweetness of our sensual excess, and our shameless opulence, while our discontent souls suffocate in the arid wasteland of spiritual deprivation.

plumpest raisins, finest custards, salmon and sardines… … came the tortoise, the honeycakes, poppies and squills, and the ·[next?]·Ã¢â'¬Â¦ … I ate until I could ·[burst?]·, then ate more…

he smokes so much it as if he is turning himself into ash.

The Oracle at Delphi contained three maxims emblematic of Greek life. "Know yourself." "Nothing in excess." and, "Offer a guarantee and disaster threatens.

It seemed that there was nothing you could find here that was not expensive and very little that was actually necessary.

It looked a little like a railway terminus as designed by an overambitious architect … one obviously with ideas above his station.