Quotes About Excess

This bloke was so pissed, he thought his vomit had come to life!

Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.

Full is the earth of the superfluous; marred is life by the many-too-many. May they be decoyed out of this life by the "life eternal"!

A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.

One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.

Such excess of passion is quite out of fashion

Z is for Zillah who drank too much gin.

Gluttony is, after all, one of the seven deadly sins, and it's not because it's associated with obesity, a threat to an individual's survival, but because it represents overconsumption to the point of wastefulness, a threat to an entire community. Today, a gluttony of consumption has become the norm.

I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

Exceeding the salt spoils the delicious food, which can be dangerous too. Similarly, to surpass and misuse the veto right in the UN Security Council deprecates and damages the value and nature of its charter, and that becomes a poison.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

Der bequeme Fernsehstuhl breitet weit die Arme aus, leise ertönt die Signation zur Zeit im Bild, nüchtern regt sich der Nachrichtensprecher über seiner Krawatte. Auf dem Beistelltisch in beispielgebender Fülle und Buntheit eine sortierte Schüsselsammlung mit Naschereien, aus der sich die Damen abwechselnd oder zugleich bedienen. Wenn sie leer ist, wird sie sogleich nachgefüllt, es ist wie im Schlaraffenland, wo auch nichts zuende geht und nichts anfängt.

There is too much too much too much of everything. We have enough too. More than enough. We've had enough.

I had a slab of German chocolate cake the size of a child's tombstone. Ralph

Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me.

Billionaires don't want to be better in nature than one another but only filthier richer.

Gerardo; People can die from an excessive dose of the truth, you know.

Do you dare to accuse wine of clouding the reason? Quote me more marvelous effects than those of wine. Look! when a man drinks, he is rich, everything he touches succeeds, he gains lawsuits, is happy and helps his friends. Come, bring hither quick a flagon of wine, that I may soak my brain and get an ingenious idea.

Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.

The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.

One can aim at honor both as one ought, and more than one ought, and less than one ought. He whose craving for honor is excessive is said to be ambitious, and he who is deficient in this respect unambitious; while he who observes the mean has no peculiar name.

Both excess and defect are alike prejudicial to moral virtue.

Moral virtue is ... a mean between two vices, that of excess and that of defect, and ... it is no small task to hit the mean in each case, as it is not, for example, any chance comer, but only the geometer, who can find the center of a given circle.

There are, then, three states of mind ... two vices--that of excess, and that of defect; and one virtue--the mean; and all these are in a certain sense opposed to one another; for the extremes are not only opposed to the mean, but also to one another; and the mean is opposed to the extremes.