Quotes About Excess

If you keep more 230 tigers, it's like having 230 children, you don't really love them, you're just collecting them.

There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.

Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, sir, is not in Nature.

To be sure, the Road of Excess leads to the Palace of Wisdom, even when it takes you through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders. Just watch out for parasites.

Beauty is not to ask for, but to overask for.

All movements go too far.

I hate feeling full, so Christmas is about the only time I really stuff myself.

The last time I took drugs, I probably took more than anybody could survive.

He drank too much when he could get it, ate too much when it was there, talked too much all the time.

The reality shows are getting worse and worse. They're out of control and have been for some time.

Happiness is a masterpiece: the slightest error compromises it, the slightest hesitation undermines it, the slightest excess corrupts it, the slightest vulgarity defiles it.

Practicaba en secreto una vida austera de la que nadie tenía idea. Pero el largo aprendizaje del deber estoico no lo había endurecido en una actitud de falsa sabiduría; era demasiado fino como para no haberse apercibido de que los extremos de la virtud se asemejan a los del amor en que su mérito proviene precisamente de su rareza, de su condición de obra maestra única, de hermoso exceso.

La crudeltà è un lusso da oziosi, come le droghe e le camicie di seta.

You know, it's a funny thing. You can smoke yourself to death, drink yourself to death, work yourself to death, and even eat yourself to death. But that's all acceptable. The only thing you can't do medically is screw yourself to death, and yet that's where they put all the obstacles.

A Criminal is the case of surplus of human energy directed in the wrong direction.

Un estómago cargado, (...) avaricioso, engendra malos pensamientos, avinagra el carácter, fomenta complejos y apetitos sexuales chuecos y crea vocación de delito, una necesidad de castigar en los otros el tormento excrementicio

JLB: El lujo me parece una vulgaridad.

Dentro de esta tradición, la prosa literaria creada por Borges es una anomalía, pues desobedece íntimamente la predisposición natural de la lengua española hacia el exceso, optando por la más estricta parquedad.

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