Quotes About Overindulgence

I think the Baby Boom has enjoyed itself, maybe sometimes a little too much, and we're continuing to enjoy ourselves, maybe a little too much.

All round there was a rising tide of beer, widow Désir's barrels had all been broached, beer had rounded all paunches and was overflowing in all directions, from noses, eyes - and elsewhere. People were so blown out and higgledy-piggledy, that everybody's elbows or knees were sticking into his neighbour and everybody thought it great fun to feel his neighbour's elbows. All mouths were grinning from ear to ear in continuous laughter.

The Woman and Her Hen A WOMAN possessed a Hen that gave her an egg every day. She often pondered how she might obtain two eggs daily instead of one, and at last, to gain her purpose, determined to give the Hen a double allowance of barley. From that day the Hen became fat and sleek, and never once laid another egg.

That which renders life burdensome to us generally arises from the abuse of it.

Vielleicht liest er zu viel. Das soll sehr schädlich sein.

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

I tend to overdo things.

We're loving something to death in a way, which Americans tend to do a lot.

Excess is success.

She hoped he wouldn't ask what she was doing at the party. If she had to say she was a poet, her present situation, her overindulgence, would be taken as drearily typical.

My motto in life is, 'If anything is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.'

Too much of anything is tiresome. Even the best things.

When I was at my biggest I was having a daily fry up, fish and chips once per week, takeaway a couple more times and drinking beer nearly every day.

TO THE LADY JESSICA- May this place give you as much pleasure as it has given me. Please permit the room to convey a lesson we learned from the same teachers: the proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger. My kindest wishes, MARGOT LADY FENRING

May this place give you as much pleasure as it has given me. Please permit the room to convey a lesson we learned from the same teachers: the proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.

Twenty-four years of sneaking cola drinks for breakfast had finally taken its toll, and she had been tossed into sugar-induced hallucination.

Too much success spoils success.

There are worse addictions than reality TV, chocolate and coffee.

When life has gone into overtime it's easy to take liberties.

Empires implode from within due to their own excesses.

Last time I had three or four of those I crapped for three days straight!

I bet you my body is three-quarters Red Bull.

No such thing, the queen said, as too many sequins.

Stuff yourself full of kippers, Luke said. Then it will be impossible to feel anything at all.