Even years from now, once I've stopped drinking, I will never stop trusting extremes. I will always believe that anything worth having is worth having in excess. The good things are worth hoarding until you have a cookie-fat ass, sex-aching loins, joy that fires through you like popping popcorn, or love, the weakness at the sight of some boy who makes your chest ache like indigestion. If it's good for you, it ought to be good for you in any amount, and you should track down every available bit of it. And if it's toxic, if it turns your liver into a hard little rock of scar tissue, or curls your memory at the edges like something burned in a fire, or makes your stomach flop, or your mind ache, or your personality contorted, you shouldn't buy into the bullshit about temperance.

~ Koren Zailckas

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One must not permit oneself excesses, except with persons whom one wishes soon to leave.

~ Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

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First sons and daughters seduced to play and party 'til it was too late to realize they were being lead to the slaughter. They discounted the law of moderation.

~ T.f. Hodge

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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

~ Hippocrates

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Never order food in excess of your body weight.

~ Erma Bombeck

Erma Bombeck Body Never Excess

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

~ Plutarch

Plutarch Cowardice Excess Between

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

~ Will Durant

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