Quotes About Excess

Still watches too much porn, though. You can tell.

And I say too much of what, he says too much of everything, too much stuff, too many places, too much information, too many people, too much of things for there to be too much of, there is too much to know and I don't know where to begin but I want to try.

There is no such thing as excess in our taking of this spiritual food. There is no such virtue as temperance in spiritual feasting.

of a corrupt spirit, that breaks over all bounds, and loves inordinate vastnesse; that is it we ought to be carefull of.

Virtues become vices when they are carried to an extreme.

the whole world turned into an all-you-can-eat buffet...

Three things," I told her. "First, there's no such thing as too much coffee. Second, caffeine has nothing to do with my jitters. And third, there's no such thing as too much coffee.

I told him… that we ate when we were not hungry, and drank without the provocation of thirst.

Phillip, who is congenitally incapable of moderation

consumismo: esta es una nueva forma de liberación. Estamos destinados a consumir: objetos, cosas superfluas, información, revistas, viajes, relaciones; se trata de tener

Porque una cosa es disfrutar de la vida y saborearla, en tantas vertientes como esta tiene, y otra muy distinta ese maximalismo cuyo objetivo es el afán y el frenesí de diversión sin restricciones. Lo

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

On Saturday, he ate through one piece of chocolate cake, one ice-cream cone, one pickle, one slice of Swiss cheese, one slice of salami, one lollipop, one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcake, and one slice of watermelon That night he had a stomach ache.

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

It had all been an endless, meaningless round of theater performances that he now couldn't remember and long stays at country houses and dances and card parties and eating and drinking to excess and more eating and drinking to excess—and nothing to show for any of it.

Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers.

Some will buy things, which they don't really need, with money they don't have, for people they don't actually care for. In the end however, they find their financial assets and, even more so, their corporeal capacity, completely undermined. ( "Keeping up with the Joneses" )

Having much makes us greedy.

The river is overflowing.

People of too much sentiment are like fountains, whose overflow keeps a disagreeable puddle about them.

God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent.

Apparently after six days baking pigs and herding bricks, the inhabitants would kick back with a spot of cock-fighting, bullbaiting, and ratting. It was the sort of place an adventurous gentleman might venture only if he didn't mind being beaten, rolled, and catching an exciting venereal disease.

In home furnishing terms, past a certain point, more money doesn't get you anything except an increase in insurance premiums. An