Quotes About Excess

But nothing I ever gave was good for you; it was like white bread to goldfish. They cram and cram, and it kills them, and they drift in the pool, belly-up, making stunned faces and playing on our guilt as if their own toxic gluttony was not their fault.

This, said a voice from the depths of the sofa, is too much.

We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.

You can tell you ate too much for Thanksgiving when you have to let your bathrobe out.

Americans are gluttons. We shop with forklifts. We have a holiday where we stuff food into other food. Our strippers wrestle in Jell-O, where other countries have to use mud.

Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving.

I like to stuff myself at Thanksgiving, not turkeys.

Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.

More than one cigar at a time is excessive smoking.

Last time I was sober, man I felt bad, Worst hangover that I ever had. It took six hamburgers, Scotch all night, Nicotine for breakfast just to put me right.

I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.

By the time dessert arrives I am usually so drunk, I can't remember what I'm serving.

Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.

mogla sam jedino zaklju?iti kako pretjerana taština, jednako kao i pijanstvo, otvrdnjuje srce, podjarmljuje sposobnosti te izopa?uje osje?aje; te kako psi nisu jedina bi?a koja se, i kada su sita do grla, i dalje nasla?uju onime što ne mogu proždrijeti te zavide i na najmanjem zalogaju svome izgladnjelom bratu.

Un exceso de vanidad, como la borrachera, endurece el corazón, esclaviza las facultades y pervierte los sentimientos.

His appetite was enormous: he would eat a breakfast of haddock, poached eggs, bacon, chicken and woodcock before a day's shooting, lunch and dinner of ten to fourteen courses, elaborate teas, snacks of lobster salad or cold chicken, with a cold chicken left by his bed at night in case he became hungry.

Death from hunger happened a hundred yards from death from obesity.

Lestat thought the best color at all times for vampires was black, possibly the only aesthetic principle he steadfastly maintained, but he wasn't opposed to anything which smacked of style and excess.

Adulation is like rain. You can only get so wet.

The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.

This doesn't look like anything you'd find mere mortals riding in!

No es acaso el atiborramiento la forma más refinada del sadismo? Y el amor, llevado a este punto de saturación de la demanda, ¿no se convierte en una forma de tortura?

Is there such a thing as being too happy?

He wanted to work in Hot Woman Valhalla until he died of testosterone poisoning. (Nick)