Quotes About Excess

Pele featured in the Brazilophile imaginary as the a figure of non-utile excess, a carefree artist in the Nietzschean sense, indifferent to the narrow teleology of winning matches... check the way that most of the endlessly replayed footage we see of Pele is not of him scoring goals, but audaciously missing chances contrived by force of wit.

In terms of the energy-banking concept, what we'd love to be able to do is to act in a way where customers could deposit excess energy when they didn't need it and withdraw it when they did need it.

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

Empires implode from within due to their own excesses.

When I started to make money, I went a bit crazy. Once, I went to the race track and woke up the next morning owning a horse.

A woman can never have enough shoes.

On the whole, I think women wear too much and are to fussy. You can't see the person for all the clutter.

There are many theories about the best way to remove excess carbon from the atmosphere - some are ludicrous, others are at least worth study. The most commonly discussed plan is to lace the sky with reflective chemicals.

We spend money we don't have, on things we don't need, to make impressions that don't matter.

When Jerry Springer thinks you've gone too far, my friends, you have gone too far.

I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.

La elegancia no consiste en el exceso de adornos, ni en la profusión de alhajas.

This is how we are with wine and beautiful food... we want and we get drunk with wanting, then the headache and bitterness afterward.

How many BMWs do you need? How many Rolex watches you gonna wear in your lifetime, for crying out loud? What is it about that kind of desire? I don't understand it.

Those who have too much, too often respect nothing.

The combination of long-expired beef jerky and ten cans of Coors were likely responsible for the upheaval in his bowels.

The waiters' eyes sparkled and their pencils flew as she proceeded to eviscerate my wallet – paté, Whitstable oysters, a sole, and a favorite salad of the Nizam of Hyderabad made of shredded five-pound notes.

Which is recorded of Socrates, that he was able both to abstain from, and to enjoy, those things which many are too weak to abstain from, and cannot enjoy without excess. But to be strong enough both to bear the one and to be sober in the other is the mark of a man who has a perfect and invincible soul.

He is so rich, he has no room to shit.

If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.

They were new money, without a doubt: so new it shrieked. Their clothes looked as it they'd covered themselves in glue, then rolled around in hundred-dollar bills.

Only fools, he said, were given to bragging about how much they could drink.

Nothing helps gluttony along so well as eating food you don't have to pay for yourself

I admit I relish it, this lick of dissipation.