Quotes About Excess

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She remembered Scott saying that people shouldn't be allowed houses with more than two toilets to shit in, it gives them delusions of grandeur.

The country is an amazing paradox. In other lands, when a man eats to his fullest day after day, that man becomes fat…sleepy…piggish. But in this land…it seems the more you have the more aggressive you become.

You actually can be too rich or too thin

I love money. I love everything about it. I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of socks. Got a fur sink. An electric dog polisher. A gasoline powered turtleneck sweater. And, of course, I bought some dumb stuff, too.

Too much of anything is bad, but too much whiskey is just enough. — Mark Twain

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom,"24 William Blake

by conflating profligacy with evil and asceticism with virtue, the moral sense can sanctify pointless displays of sacrifice.

I love dark chocolate - I could eat it 'til I puke.

I either eat too much or starve myself. Sleep for 14 hours or have insomniac nights. Fall in love very hard or hate passionately. I don't know what grey is. I never did.

After you, it's all cheap tequila.

I love Vegas. God knows that I know how to find my way around the buffets in Las Vegas.

Is it possible to love someone too much? You bet.

I love you all too much, it's one of just of my problems.

Too much of anything can make you sick, even the good can be a curse - Cheryl Cole

My Passion uncontrolled shall rove, Doubly debauched with Wine and Love.

Can one desire too much of a good thing?

I love to smoke. I wish I had more than two hands so I can hold more cigars

Give me Caviar Kaspia and give me a hamburger. I love the two extremes.

Falling in love makes smoking pot all day look like the ultimate in restraint.

I do love Louboutin shoes, but I need to stop buying them because I don't go to many 'dos,' so they just line up. I'm normally in my trainers.

El orden puede acabar resultando excesivo, y eso no es bueno, pero el caos puede anegarlo todo y ahogarnos, lo que tampoco es bueno.

They were drunk on youth, fueled by greed, and higher than kites.

But what I sincerely hope is that my life serves as a cautionary tale to the rich and poor alike; to anyone who's living with a spoon up their nose and a bunch of pills dissolving in their stomach sac; or to any person who's considering taking a God-given gift and misusing it; to anyone who decides to go to the dark side of the force and live a life of unbridled hedonism. And to anyone who thinks there's anything glamorous about being known as a Wolf of Wall Street. BOOK I