Quotes About Excess

But what was wrong with that? They were drunk on youth, fueled by greed, and higher than kites.

I've long since lost my taste for good coffee," he says. "I much prefer the kind that sooner or later, if you keep on drinking it, your hands will begin to shake and the whites of your eyes will turn yellow.

The man of knowledge in our time is bowed down under a burden he never imagined he would ever have: the overproduction of truth that cannot be consumed.

The rich were dull and they drank too much…. He remembered poor Julian and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, "The very rich are different from you and me." And how someone had said to Julian, Yes, they have more money.

So the sick man has the feeling not that he lacks something but that he has too much of something. His discomfort, as something which is hanging around him and superfluous, has to go; pain is proud flesh. He dreams of the body which knows how to keep comfortably quiet again.

There are] two states of barbarism, one caused by ignorance, the other (for which there is far less hope of remedy), by the excess and abuse of knowledge. (13 January 1857)

When you grab all you can get, that's what happens: the more you get, the less you are.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honornor any worthiness.

It was too much... the gods would not permit such joy.

I'd eat bowls of soft-serve ice cream until I felt sick.

Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or fattening.

There are few catastrophes so great and irremediable as those that follow an excess of zeal.

I know very well that the theatre is Sodom and Gomorrah in one.

we are living in a time where a handful of people have wealth beyond comprehension.

The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.

For excess breeds hubris, when great prosperity comes to men of unsound mind.16

Any excess in life is a substitute for something that's missing.

Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth.

Fatal Vision was a very successful book that a lot of people like, but the problem with it is that you could edit out 75% of the book without losing a single fact or insight.

Americans are gluttons. We shop with forklifts. We have a holiday where we stuff food into other food. Our strippers wrestle in Jell-O, where other countries have to use mud.

My spinach feta wrap usage rate is off the charts.

Everybody writes a book too many.