Excessive Behavior Quotes

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

When I first became recognizable from appearing on television, I abused my notoriety as much as I possibly could, at the expense of both my health and personal relationships.

When humans act like animals, they become the most dangerous of animals to themselves and other humans, and this is because of another critical difference between humans and animals: Whereas animals are usually restrained by the limits of physical appetites, humans have mental appetites that can be far more gross and capacious than physical ones. Only humans squander and hoard, murder and pillage because of notions.

The war to rein in Wall Street excess is never over.

You know you have a gambling problem when it's 4 A.M. at the Mirage Sports Book and you're walking around going, 'Hey you get the lacrosse scores?'

When I do something I have to do it all the way - that goes for music, with a high-hat, a snare drum, a rhyme, everything. I have to push it to the extreme. That's how I realized I have addictive behavior. Somebody told me this once, that the thing that makes me bad is the same thing that makes me good at other things.

for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men

People do too much. They say too much.

It's all very hazy to me now. I'm glad I made it through that stage. It got a little dicey. There were some drugs going on. I remember singing one song for about a day and a half.

I'm an extremist. I don't do things in halves. I don't moderate anything. That can be with work or with good things as well. But often, I take it a bit too far.

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

I did everything but drink the bong water when I was young.

Nowhere else in America is everyone really ready to get outta their minds. No pun intended, like my song. Vegas is that place.

I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess.

Both Self-restraint and Unrestraint are a matter of extremes as compared with the character of the mass of mankind; the restrained man shows more and the unrestrained man less steadfastness than most men are capable of.

There was a time when all I cared about was the next game, the next party, the next tee time.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

Now I realize that from '72 through to about '76, I was the ultimate rock star. I couldn't have been more rock star.

The problem with me is, anything that's easy I will just overdo it. Especially with clothes. But I'm 14 - my mom is super-strict about that.

Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.

Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.

Anything worth doing is worth over-doing. Moderation is for cowards.

We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.

Most British statesman have either drunk too much or womanized too much. I never fell into the second category.

Intemperance is a hydra with a hundred heads. She never stalks abroad unaccompanied with impurity, anger, and the most infamous profligacies.