Excess Quotes
Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect.
It is better to err by excess of mercy than by excess of severity. . .Wilt thou become a Saint? Be severe to thyself but kind to others.
We miss the real by lack of attention, and create the unreal by excess of imagination.
If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.
The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots.
Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.
Life etches itself onto our faces as we grow older, showing our violence, excesses or kindnesses.
If you subtracted all of the great artists who never drank, who never went to excess, you wouldn't have any more art left. What kind of poem are you gonna get out of a glass of iced tea?
For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.
Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature.
Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents.
Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, For works may have more with than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood.
The key to a good life: excess in moderation. They'll tell you moderation is the key to life, but that's bullshit.
It is concluded that artificial fluoridation appears to cause or induce about 20-30 excess cancer deaths for every 100,000 persons exposed per year after about 15-20 years.
Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.
Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.
I personally don't do any hard drugs, because they get in the way of me getting to my base issues, and I'd rather get rid of the excess baggage than find a way to shove it deeper in the closet.
Rectitude carried to excess hardens into stiffness; benevolence indulged beyond measure sinks into weakness.
Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
Excess is part of my nature. Dullness is a disease. I really need danger and excitement. I'm never scared of putting myself out on a limb.
The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.
A great deal more failure is the result of an excess of caution than of bold experimentation with new ideas. The frontiers of the Kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution.
Too much of anything could destroy you, Simon thought. Too much darkness could kill, but too much light could blind.
Excess in moderation: don't drink a few beers every day after work, wait 'till the end of the month and drink all the beers at once.
Tough times helped many commodities traders become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up.
Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
If you're going to dedicate your career to ranting about the excesses of American capitalism, you probably shouldn't weigh 450 pounds.
These are the Seven Deadly Sins: Avarice, Envy, Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Sloth. These are the seven deadly sins: venality, paranoia, insecurity, excess, carnality, contempt, boredom.
When couples have children in excess, let abortion be procured before sense and life have begun; what may or may not be lawfully done in these cases depends on the question of life and sensation.
No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.
In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of people's wrath.
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.