Quotes About Excess

The superfluous is very necessary.

Luxury is more deadly than any foe.

The fashion wears out more apparel than the man.

More than enough is too much.

Avarice is as destitute of what it has as poverty is of what it has not.

It is possible to own too much. A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure.

No gain satisfies a greedy mind.

We risk all in being too greedy.

The Internet is, among other things, a massive, chaotic marketplace. Too much information, it turns out, is a lot like no information.

I am the worst at the grocery store. It turns into three carts. It turns into, 'Oh did you see the truffle cheese? We've got to get the truffle cheese!'

When I come to Chicago, I gorge myself. I get off the plane and start with Gene and Jude's for two hot dogs with everything, swing by The Fudge Pot for a taffy apple and a turtle, chocolate clusters at Sarah's Pastries and Candies and steak at Smith and Wollensky. I find time for Gino's pizza within the next 12 hours.

I got a Cadillac Escalade. Put some rims on it, threw a couple TV's in there, and installed a system. I stuck my Xbox in there. I had to go for it.

I used to have about a hundred suits in my late twenties and early thirties when my stock was riding high and I was rich.

Headlines twice the size of the events.

I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out.

I don't wear anything more than once most of the time. I try not to wear the same thing twice. I have too many clothes to wear the same thing twice.

I've had all the monstrosity I want.

Strip clubs are the only place the band can go if we want to have a drink. You're left alone because the last thing the people there care about is us.

I like reading books where people with a lot of money use it to do whatever they want. Like stay in expensive hotels and do whatever drugs they want and fly wherever they want.

I know that the fantastic amount of profit that people want to make on anything is damaging. And that none of us seem able to resist it.

I have more government than I want, more government than I need, more government than I can afford.

People don't want to hear about me having leather walls or gold toilets.

At the end of the day I want to wear everything.

How is he?" "He's a royal pain, frankly. He eats three times as much as the rest of us, yet he can't seem to get the knack of hunting. If we don't feed him he whines. So, of course, we do feed him and then he grows another six inches and whines louder.