Quotes About Excess

Treasure in such large amounts stopped feeling precious

a person who commits each of these sins with abandon.

You can't get enough of your favorite meal until, in the next moment, you find you are so stuffed as to nearly require the attention of a surgeon—and yet, by some quirk of physics, you still have room for dessert.

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

Drunkenness, she had discovered

filling every space of the room. The piles of diamonds, rubies, emeralds, pearls, sapphires

The world needed more fireworks- especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, useless things.

am I not the same being who once enjoyed an excess of happiness, who at every step saw paradise open before him, and whose heart was ever expanded towards the whole world? and this heart is now dead; no sentiment can revive it. my eyes are dry; and my senses, no more refreshed by the influence of soft tears, wither and consume my brain.

Is stuffed, de world, wif feeding girls.

To drink this much in one session would kill even an Aberdeen harlot.

Welcome to American capitalism. It's a great system, except that no one ever has enough.

luxury   generally prevails in prosperity, and wastes the blessings of God

The ancient proverb says, "Satiety   produces disgust

ordered more cakes than I have. He

It was one of those midsummer Sundays when everyone sits around saying, "I drank too much last night.

she is utterly incapable of enjoying a thing. Except the bar of the Colombe and a good flask of wine. And we all know what that leads to.

Lester Bargus was what people liked to call 'two pounds of shit in a one-pound bag.

paunch lapping at his belt like a pale tongue, peeping out from beneath the fabric of his golf shirt, hairy and somehow obscene. He was

A world without love is a world governed by rigid contracts and inexorable duties, a world in which – God forbid! – the lawyers run everything. The mark of really loving someone or something is unconditionality and excess, engagement and commitment, fire and passion.

Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease.

Those who consume far more resources than they require destroy the life chances of those whose survival depends upon consuming more.

I am like Hugh Hefner minus anything good about his life.

There is only one vice, which may be found in life with as strong features, and as high a colouring as needs be employed by any satyrist or comic poet; and that is AVARICE.

Perhaps I have lived my life to excess, but know what — if I had it to do over again, I would overdo it again.