Quotes About Excess

the volume and complexity of what we know has exceeded our individual ability to deliver its benefits correctly, safely, or reliably. Knowledge has both saved us and burdened us. That

I sit there and think how it isn't fair that I can't drink at all, even a little. I realize I have crammed an entire lifetime of moderate drinking into a decade of hard-core drinking and that is why. I blew my wad.

We had a wealth of something we didn't want, but the wealth itself was intoxicating and we invented games, just so we could experience the sensation of having too much of something.

I sat up and my mouth tasted horrible, like stale pot, beer and Cheetos. The exact combination of ingredients that had caused me to pass into unconsciousness on Natalie's floor.

If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.

He is drunk at least 22 hours of every 24 and never without one or two whores in company.")

Dobro mo?e i bywa w niewielkich dawkach dobre, ale jako do?ywocie jest trucizn?.

I don't believe less is more. I believe that more is more. I believe that less is less, fat fat, thin thin and enough is enough.

L'Occidente mangia sulla terrazza e da basso il resto del mondo attende gli avanzi. [...] Ai ricchi di questi e altri tempo piace così - dice il diavolo roteando la forchetta - e le porte dell'inferno sono larghe abbastanza per qualsiasi pancia.

There was an excess of drinking, whoring, fighting. Older British observers complained, "The trouble with you Yanks is that you are overpaid, oversexed, and over here." (To which the Yanks would reply, "The trouble with you Limeys is that you are underpaid, undersexed, and under Eisenhower.")

Sometimes there just isn't enough vomit in the world.

If a thing can be said in ten words, I may be relied upon to take a hundred to say it. I ought to apologize for that. I ought to prune, pare and extirpate excess growth, but I will not. I like words—strike that, I love words—and while I am fond of the condensed and economical use of them in poetry, in song lyrics, in Twitter, in good journalism and smart advertising, I love the luxuriant profusion and mad scatter of them too.

I've always believed it right for young people to drink. Not to be alcoholic of course, that is a passive state of being, not a positive action. But it is good to drink to excess.

A small proportion to be spent on production, the rest for wine and senseless riot.

The Americans, he laughed drunkenly. They build more cars than anybody in the world, and take them out and dump them in terrible traffic jams. The only thing crazier than the Americans were the Russians, who never had traffic jams because they didn't have cars.

Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one.

Whenever anything happens in America, they have to gold-plate it, like baby shoes. That way you can forget it.

Murder is the worst kind of pornography, murder is let me do what I want taken to its final extreme.

I'm going out for a bottle of champagne. We're going to get bombed.

Generosity is not measured by how much we give away. Generosity is measured by how much we keep for ourselves.

When I go out, I love steak and caviar.

There is a kind of love, the excess of which forbids jealousy.

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

Now ring that bloke of yours to tell him you're staying out all night, then have another drink. In fact, have six. It would please me no end to see you get hammered on Alicia's father's bill." And so I did.