Quotes About Overindulgence

Consequently, there are produced very valiant fighters… not softened by any overindulgence in fruits… the Danes… are just as poor… Poverty has forced them thus to go all over the world and from piratical raids they bring home in great abundance the riches of the lands.

drank themselves to death. However

Christmas is the glorious time of great Too-Much.

We had a wealth of something we didn't want, but the wealth itself was intoxicating and we invented games, just so we could experience the sensation of having too much of something.

A treat cannot possibly have the same meaning in an era where white-flour cakes are everywhere and candy canes are sold by the dozen for less than the price of a loaf of bread.

When I like something, I wear it into the ground, then really regret it.

Hollywood could use less instead of more of everything.

If something is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.

Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.

I drink too much, I smoke too much, I take pills too much, I work too much, I girl around too much, I everything too much.

Too much of a good thing can be taxing.

We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane.

exertion. We live in an opulent blandness—overfed, overtended, overentertained, and overly preoccupied with ourselves. But men need aggressive physical lives. They need contest and conquest, strain and struggle. Otherwise, we lose ourselves to softness and effeminacy. It is not much of a surprise that a New Testament word that is translated effeminate from the original Greek actually means "soft through luxury." It is a warning.

Too much of anything can make you sick, even the good can be a curse - Cheryl Cole

But I deal with this meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not to overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world.

I'd eat bowls of soft-serve ice cream until I felt sick.

There are some people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.

Whatever your favorite food is, if you eat it every day for a month, you're going to get sick of it.

Now we are in a situation in which for a significant part of the industrial world too much could become a danger, especially too much of the things which are really not good for us in such large quantities.

If you only use rich and luxurious ingredients, you end up with excess.

Truth be told, ginormous portions have become a pet peeve of mine.

We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane.

for as long as he had lived, everything had been provided for him. Answers to his questions, entertainment to sate his whims. Almost by accident, he had become a glutton.

Sai, negli ultimi mesi ho mangiato tante di quelle pesche in scatola, che ieri notte ho praticamente cacato una crostata.