Quotes About Excess

information is a form of garbage and yet we're oddly addicted to cramming more of it in our brains.

I mean, what do you do in Las Vegas? You gamble — and you go to strip clubs.

You'd have to take your shoes and breeches off to count to twenty-one!

No wonder these creatures sinned. No wonder they sought refuge in lust and depravity and excess. They were God's mistakes.

I wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.

There are very sophisticated, very time-consuming dishes to prepare; always from scratch, and always in excess of what you could possibly need. You tend to kill your guests with kindness around here.

The wild stuff is all so overrated. Drinking, you don't feel good all the time. There's a lot of down, a lot of misery.

Superfluous money buys wasted time, propelling desires that otherwise lay buried beneath the feet of honest toil.

Christmas is the glorious time of great Too-Much.

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.

You can't throw too much style into a miracle.

The signs of excessive indulgence in this destructive pastime are easily detectable. They are these: A disposition to eat, to drink, to smoke, to meet together convivially, to laugh, to joke, and tell indelicate stories— and mainly, a yearning to paint pictures.

Everything in moderation except whiskey, and sometimes too much whiskey is just enough.

Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Gluttony and sloth, as worldly goals, were quietly usurped by avarice and lust, which, together with poetry (yes, poetry), consumed all my free time.

As for me, I'm a gurgling wizard of calorific excess.

There have been rich meat and bloody wine. There have been brandies, and thick puddings. There has already been some dirty talk. Selina is in high spirits, and as for me, I'm a gurgling wizard of calorific excess.

By 12.30, Giles had consumed five gin-rickies, four gin-and-tonics, three gin-and-its, two gin-and-bitters, and one gin.

These days he smoked and drank largely to solace himself for what drinking and smoking had done to him, so he drank and smoked a lot. He experimented, furthermore, with pretty well any other drug he could get his hands on

There are no grand plans, no master strategies, just the lust for power, the insane addictive desire to accumulate more and more because too much is never enough.

Over-indulgence blinds us to the truth, turning us inward, making us slaves to our own insatiable desires."11 Don W. King

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

Assim como todo excesso numa atividade costuma levar ao contrário do que se pretendia, as palavras servem de fato para tornar os pensamentos compreensíveis, mas só até certo ponto. Quando esse ponto é ultrapassado, elas tornam os pensamentos a serem comunicados mais e mais obscuros. Encontrar tal ponto é uma tarefa do estilo e uma questão da capacidade de julgar, pois toda palavra supérflua age diretamente contra seu objetivo.