Quotes About Excess

Drink,Drugs and shagging models. The rest I just wasted.' George Best on where his millions went.

Actually, it only takes one drink to get me loaded. Trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or fourteenth.

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.

Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.

John Cochrane notes: "Rich people mostly give away or reinvest their wealth. It's hard to see just how this is a problem.…Look at Versailles. Nobody, not even Bill Gates, lives like Marie Antoinette. And nobody in the US lives like her peasants.

You destroyed five million dollars' worth of luxury cars. Yes, but none of them are wearing human heads as hood ornaments.

Perhaps it was a case of time overflowing.

Drugs are always fun.

No ambition but to use up the big wages on more drink and more hopeless horses.

It means zero to be against greed.

'Tiger King.' They are absolutely gone with the fairies, they're all absolutely raving out of the box, the lot of them. All those people with animals like tigers, who've got their own zoos in America, and one guy's got something like 2,000 tigers in his back garden. It's absolutely mad.

You can't have more bugs than a blanketful.

If ever there was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson called New York.

If the poor man cannot always get meat, the rich man cannot always digest it.

For when the wine is in, the wit is out.

He who drinks a little too much drinks much too much.

Drink not the third glass - which thou can'st not tame when once it is within thee.

There are more old drunkards than old physicians.

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

Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them.

All excess is ill, but drunkeness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.

An alcoholic has been lightly defined as a man who drinks more than his own doctor.

Let us eat and drink: for tomorrow we diet.

No one in this world needs a mink coat but a mink.