Quotes About Excess

I like to browse in Cartier, Chanel and Gucci and if something special grabs my eye I splash out.

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

I used to go to Haagen-Dazs and order three banana splits at a time!

'Maneater' is about N.Y.C. in the '80s. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches.

We've all seen those spoiled little brats that end up being given everything and on their 17th birthday get a Ferrari. That whole thing I just can't bear it.

One of the hardest challenges posed by the modern world is how to deal with abundance. It's even harder to confront because admitting that it's a problem seems spoiled.

Polygamy: an endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little.

The avaricious man is like the barren sandy ground of the desert which sucks in all the rain and dew with greediness, but yields no fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others.

Men are nicotine soaked, beer besmirched, whiskey greased, red-eyed devils.

A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, no worthiness.

As long as the vice of gluttony has a hold on a man, all that he has done valiantly is forfeited by him: and as long as the belly is unrestrained, all virtue comes to naught.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.

Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

many of you who have excess U.S. currency to get rid of have been trying to kill two birds with one stone by using old billions as bathroom tissue. While creative, this approach has two drawbacks: 1) It clogs the plumbing, and 2) It constitutes defacement of U.S. currency, which is a federal crime. DON'T DO IT.

America's like this big old clanking, smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight. Leaves behind a trail of garbage a mile wide. Always needs more fuel.

Vitaly owns half a carton of Lucky Strikes, an electric guitar, and a hangover.

But America's like this big old clanking, smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight. Leaves behind a trail of garbage a mile wide. Always needs more fuel.

The air was so thick with testosterone that the wallpaper was getting soggy.

I spent most of my money on booze and broads and I wasted the rest of it.