Quotes About Excess

It was no surprise to Rowan that it was painted royal blue and studded with glistening stars. Everything in Scythe Goddard's life was a testament to his ego.

No se escandalice el lector de que esta seriedad arraigue en lo frívolo; recuerde que hay grandeza en todos los delirios, fuerza en todos los excesos.

Ya got cigarettes?" she asks. "Yes," I say, "I got cigarettes." "Matches?" she asks. "Enough to burn Rome." "Whiskey?" "Enough whiskey for a Mississippi River of pain." "You drunk?" "Not yet.

Of course, you leave afterwards or get very drunk which is the same thing.

December 25, 1963 Christmas night and they've battered their heads together until they are silly and they've smiled themselves silly and vomited on the floor, 98% of them amateur drinkers, amateur Christians, amateur human beings

I put on some bacon and eggs and celebrated with an extra quart of beer.

That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen. As

King Mongut had 9,000 wives. Think of it: 365 days a year divided into 9,000. No arguments. No menstrual periods. No psychic overload. Just feast and feast and feast. It must have been very hard for King Mongut to die, or very easy. There could not have been an in-between.

I got drunker and stayed drunker than a shit skunk in Purgatory.

With wine, poetry, or virtue as you choose. But get drunk.

The rich smell of life uneaten.

Give humanity a truly unlimited field, and it would fill it with Happy Meal toys and holographic sports-star, collectible trading card game art.

I know liquor's a good servant but a bad master.

I can't do anything in moderation.

There is moderation even in excess.

I'm one extreme or the other. I'm not good at doing moderation.

The point of drinking in moderation is that sometimes you don't drink in moderation.

I don't necessarily believe in moderation, but I do believe in the dangers of excess, and that's with some good things too.

As part of our research, we monitor just about every announced deal globally that is in excess of a billion dollars.

I've got 4,000 cell phone minutes, and I take it to the limit every month.

The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.

One thing that the audience, and perhaps critics, aren't aware of is that, especially in a film like 'Moonlight,' you always shoot a lot more footage than makes the cut of the film.

La oferta y la demanda dicen que los precios por encima del mercado crean excedentes invendibles, pero esto no ha evitado que Europa haya insistido durante décadas en la regulación de los mercados de trabajo, lo que ha llevado a un desempleo propio de los tiempos de la depresión. BRYAN CAPLAN

Sex for idlers should be messy, drunken, bawdy, lazy. It should be wicked, wanton and lewd, dirty to the point where it is embarrassing to look at one another in the morning.