Quotes About Excess

When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.

There's even a name for the people who have the most stuff. They're called hoarders. Back in the day they were just called grandmothers.

Amusement, on the other hand, is sought for the sake of pleasure and is often carried to excess; it absorbs the energies that are required for useful work and thus proves a hindrance to life's true success.

Our danger is not from scarcity, but from abundance. We are constantly tempted to excess.

He had nothing against debauchery in the abstract, but he was particular about the details.

I spent most of my dough on booze, broads and boats and the rest I wasted.

You think you're being difficult, my little sausage? Have I ever told you about the time I drank eight vodka martinis, took all my clothes off in front of a film crew and then broke my manager's nose?

I have never taken myself for a being. A non-citizen, a marginal type, a nothing who exists only by the excess, by the superabundance of his nothingness.

Dragostea fiind o întîlnire dureroasa si paradoxala a fericirii cu disperarea, el e prea neîncapator excesului ei inuman. De aceea, de cîte ori te trezesti din iubire, pare ca ti-a putrezit timpul prin nu mai stiu ce inima.

Când n-ai m?sur? în nimic, te m?sori cu Dumnezeu. Orice exces ni-l apropie. C?ci El nu-i decât incapacitatea noastr? de a ne opri undeva. Tot ce n-are margine - iubirea, furia, nebunia, ura - e de esen?? religioas?.

Excesul de subiectivism, la oamenii care n-au ajuns la credinta, nu poate duce decat la megalomanie sau autodenigrare. Cand te preocupi mult de tine insuti, nu poti ajunge decat sa te iubesti sau sa te urasti dincolo de orice masura. In amandoua felurile te lichidezi inainte de vreme. Nu e subiectivism acela ce nu te face Dumnezeu sau Satana.

Omul nu trebuie s? fie deprimat cu m?sur?,ci melancolic pân? la exces,extrem de deprimat

Se non si ha dentro di sé la passione dell'insolubile, non è possibile immaginare gli eccessi di cui è capace la negazione, l'impietosa lucidità della negazione.

With all due respect to Tertullian, the soul is naturally pagan. Any god at all, when he answers to our immediate needs, represents for us an increase of vitality, a stimulus, which is not the case if he is imposed upon us or if he corresponds to no necessity. Paganism's mistake was to have accepted and accumulated too many of them: it died of generosity and excess of understanding—it died from a lack of instinct.

Theirs is a civilization of deprivation; ours of finely balanced satisfaction ever teetering on the brink of excess.

drank themselves to death. However

Anyone with more than 365 pair of shoes is a pig.

No man is so rich as to buy every thing his unrestrained fancy might prompt him to desire. Hounds and horses, pictures and statues and buildings, will exhaust any fortune. There is hardly any one taste so simple or innocent, but what a man might spend his whole estate in it, if he were resolved to gratify it to the utmost. A nobleman may just as easily ruin himself by extravagance as a private man, and indeed many do so.

I have decided that the problem with poetic justice is that it never knows when to stop.

Poverty wants few things, avarice everything.

Thus an excess of directness and a want of art, in the second phase, robbed Caesar of his chance of ending the war in one campaign, and condemned him to four more years of obstinate warfare all round the Mediterranean basin.

I realized, 'Yo, I can't do anything in moderation. I don't know how.'

If you are in support of in vitro fertilization, then you have to recognize that human embryos are being created in excess of what can be used safely to reimplant for a pregnancy. So they're going to end up being discarded.

When you're willing to play poker for two days and lose millions of dollars, it's no longer recreation. It's taking over.