Quotes About Excess

Almost anything carried to its logical extreme becomes depressing, if not carcinogenic.

Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.

Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.

Cadillacs are down at the end of the bat.

I explained to him I had simple tastes and didn't want anything ostentatious, no matter what it costs.

I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

Sex is like money; only too much is enough.

No? i rakija i plitka pamet nemaju mjere.

The Church is perishing today through the lack of thinking, not through an excess of it.

What kind of a maniac needed over five thousand plates?

People seemed to have this unstoppable need to give and receive stuff they could easily afford to go out and get for themselves anyway.

If sex were food, Rhage would haven been morbidly obese.

If sex were food, Rhage would have been morbidly obese.

If sex were food, Rhage would have been morbidly obese. (Dark Lover)

dessert place that was open until one a.m. and served liquor along with chocolate thingies draped in whatever topped with blah-blah-blah on a bed of poached uh-huh, yeah.

If you own a rug you own too much.

because in one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it was The pathway to wisdom lies through excess

Only a silly sober fool could think it; imagine gloating over such nonsense (because in one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it was the pathway to wisdom lies through excess)

in one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it was The pathway to wisdom lies through excess (p. 113)

Victor proceeded to roll the biggest bomber anybody ever saw. He rolled (using brown bag paper) what amounted to a tremendous Corona cigar of tea. It was huge. Dean stared at it, popeyed. Victor casually lit it and passed it around. To drag on this thing was like leaning over a chimney and inhaling. It blew into your throat in one great blast of heat. We held our breaths and all let out just about simultaneously. Instantly we were all high.

One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.

Money can be pretty ugly.

Most movie-goers are overdosing on star coverage; it's the ultimate example of too much information.

The classic hat image was during the Forties and Fifties, and Elizabeth Taylor was the epitome of that; she was the ultimate celebrity of excess and glamour, and she worked major sun hats.