Friday 16 November 2018

10 Quotes on Excess



I only drink to make other people seem interesting.
George-Jean Nathan, American theatre critic

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.
Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist

Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
Horace, Romanian poet

Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction. William S Burroughs, American author

I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.
William S Burroughs

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!
Mae West, American actress

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Oscar Wilde, Author

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
W. Somerset Maugham, British playwright

Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.
Bernard Tschumi, Swiss architect

The possibility of physical and mental collapse is now very real. No sympathy for the Devil, keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride.
Hunter S Thompson

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