Quotes About Excess

I don't want to do anything that might be perceived as overstepping our bounds. Pigs get fat, but hogs get slaughtered.

Heavy booze is a big time vacation, but you come back with a headache.

We live in a time of excess - excess population, excess information.

The stereotypical rock-star-trashing-a-hotel-room thing? Those days had passed by the time I was in a band big enough to do it.

It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.

To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.

Every time I see a guy walk out of an over-the-top sports car, I think they need a cold shower.

I can't think of a time in the history of man when food was in excess. We're dealing with the same old problems we've dealt with for 60,000 years.

GET YOURSELF TOGETHER DRINK TILL YOU DROP FORGET ABOUT TOMORROW AND HAVE ANOTHER SHOT

Alice was pretty enough and played piano well, but she was educated in excess of a lady's requirements. She was also possessed of a quiet, stubborn strength of character that had discouraged beaux less determined than Henry Holliday, a Georgia planter ten years her senior.

As novelist Harry Crews once wrote, I'm the kind of person who—if he can't have too much of something—doesn't want any of it. In

Are the roses not also--even as the owl is--excessive? Each flower is small and lovely, but in their sheer and silent abundance the roses become an immutable force, as though the work of the wild roses was to make sure that all of us, who come wandering over the sand, may be, for a while, struck to the heart and saturated with a simple joy.

The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in the excess of grief.

It is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace. The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in indulging the excess of grief.

I found that I was reaching, automatically, for another cigarette; my eyes and throat felt hot and aching, and my brain stupid. I let it slip back into the packet. I had smoked too much that evening already.

The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in indulging the excess of grief.

intended to reason. This passion is detrimental to me; for you do not reflect that you are the cause of its excess.

Ah! It is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace. The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in indulging the excess of grief.

This passion is detrimental to me; for you do not reflect that you are the cause of its excess.

Uniqueness is the commodity of glut.

We can never get enough of what we don't really need.

I'm so overexposed, I'm making Paris Hilton look like a recluse.

Las habitaciones de hotel de 34.000 dólares por noche, la hamburguesa cubierta de polvo de oro, que ofrecía Richard Nouveau en el Wall Street Burger Shoppe por 175 dólares, el martini de 10.000 dólares del hotel Algonquin, que se servía con un diamante en la copa…

The reprieve was inevitably brief. I would return to the strip and all would be excess: Hummers purchased on tax breaks for use on flat asphalt, without even a pothole to challenge them; quarter-mile long buffets vacuumed down by impossibly corpulent diners; retirees addicted to endless hours of daily television and enticed to this place by a craving for more spectacle, more and ever more.