Excessive Pleasure Quotes

The best things beyond their measure cloy.

I have always smoked and drunk and loved too much. In fact I have lived not too long but too much. One day the Iron Crab will get me. Then I shall have died of living too much.

Drink beer, smoke dope, and eat pussy until your jaw breaks

It was the cholesterol. I had two fried eggs a day for breakfast. I had no checkups for five years. I kept meaning to go. The doctor would probably say it was years of bad living. I've always had a good time. Maybe I've had too good a time.

Take too much pleasure in good things, you'll feel The shock of adverse fortune makes you reel.

Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.

The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.

After all that corrupt poets, and more corrupt philosophers, have told us of the blandishments of pleasure, and of its tendency to soften the temper and humanize the affections, it is certain, that nothing hardens the heart like excessive and unbounded luxury; and he who refuses the fewest gratifications to his own voluptuousness, will generally be found the least susceptible of tenderness for the wants of others.

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

Pleasure, when it is a man's chief purpose, disappoints itself; and the constant application to it palls the faculty of enjoying it.

This appetite to choose death by pleasure if it is available to choose - this appetite of your people unable to choose appetites, this is the death.

The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.

To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof little more than a little is by much too much.

The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

Like one who has eaten and drunk too much and vomits painfully and then feels better, so did the restless man wish he could rid himself with one terrific heave of these pleasures, of these habits of this entirely senseless life.

Pleasure seizes the whole man who addicts himself to it, and will not give him leisure for any good office in life which contradicts the gayety of the present hour.

I know too well the poison and the sting of things too sweet.

There is no pleasure that I haven't actually made myself sick on.

Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.

When the cup of any sensual pleasure is drained to the bottom, there is always poison in the dregs.

Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then we are slaves of our body and its feelings. Only misery lies ahead.

Pleasure is like a cordial - a little of it is not injurious, but too much destroys.

No town can live peacefully whatever its laws when its citizens do nothing but feast and drink and tire themselves out in the cares of love

Pleasure, so called, is the murderer of serious thought. This is the age of excessive amusement. Everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle!

Pleasure is the rock which most young people split upon; they launch out with crowded sails in quest of it, but without a compassto direct their course, or reason sufficient to steer the vessel; for want of which, pain and shame, instead of pleasure, are the returns of their voyage.