Quotes About Excess

Let us be greedy together; let us hoard. Let us hit each other with birch branches and lock each other in dungeons; let us drink each other's blood in the night and betray each other in the sun. Let us lie and lust and take hundreds of lovers; let us dance until snow melts between us. Let us steal and eat until we grow fat and roll in the pleasures of life, clutching each other for purchase.

Sell your soul and half your shoes for a glass of gin.

I was so privileged I was acquiring the most useless graduate degree imaginable.

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.

I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself

When Yang is deficient there is external Cold, when Yin is deficient there is internal Heat, when Yang is in Excess there is external Heat, when Yin is in Excess there is internal Cold.

We consume to avoid living.

Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune.

I was very famous as a young man and I celebrated both the good and bad times with drinking.

Crkva odlican trbuh ima, citave zemlje vec je progutala, a ipak jos se nije prezderala; jedino crkva, gospo i gospodjice draga, moze da svari nezakonita blaga.

Ennui, perhaps, has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst...

A single glass of champagne imparts a feeling of exhilaration. The nerves are braced, the imagination is agreeably stirred, the wits become more nimble. A bottle produces a contrary effect. Excess causes a comatose insensibility. So it is with war, and the quality of both is best discovered by sipping.

Stuffocation: being overwhelmed by the stuff one has bought or accumulated.

He who buys what he does not need steals from himself.

Buy what thou hast no Need of, and ere long thou shalt sell thy Necessaries.

Cocaine is God's way of saying you're making too much money.

It is difficult to say which is the greatest evil — to have too violent passions, or to be wholly devoid of them... Without passion there can be no energy of character. Indeed, the passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways, and dangerous only in one — through their excess.

Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality. Given the planet, it is still necessary to add the impulse; so, to every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path, a shove to put it on its way; in every instance, a slight generosity, a drop too much.

A surfeit of honey cloys the tongue; a surfeit of wine addles the brain; so a surfeit of ease guts a man of strength.

Madouc considered. 'I would like a wand to do transformations, a cap of invisibility, swift slippers to walk the air, a purse of boundless wealth, a talisman to compel the love of all, a mirror—' 'Stop!' cried Twisk. 'Your needs are excessive!

At .50 per cent, you have imbibed a lethal amount of good fellowship.

After you, it's all cheap tequila.

My lord. It is too much, and not enough

Poetry glories in excess. When it's not extolling the virtues of austerity.