Excess Quotes

People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.

There is just so much excess in terms of the market for self-remodeling. I think most women are perfectly gorgeous and beautiful the way they are.

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.

We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.

Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything.

All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects.

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating

To what excesses do men rush for the sake of religion, of whose truth they are so little persuaded, and to whose precepts they pay so little regard!

I would rather have regrets of excess than regrets of denial.

'Tis not the eating, nor 'tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess.

He who holds on to the Way seeks no excess. Since he lacks excess, he can grow old in no need to be renewed.

If you think penguins are fat and waddle, you have never been attacked by one running at you in excess of 100 miles per hour.

The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today.

How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!

Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number.

The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.

New!Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.

In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.

As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as profuse laughter; while, on the other hand, not to mourn at all is insensibility.

The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.

Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so.

Just as modern man consumes both too many calories and calories of no nutritional value, information workers eat data both in excess and from the wrong sources.

All excess is ill; but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous, and mad.

During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant drinks and send a barrel of it to each of my other generals!

Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.

Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.

Life is about balance too much excess is chaos.

Following the Romanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away.

My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.

People are always trading their excess for somebody else's excess. One country has a lot of aluminum so they trade aluminum for sugar. It's the law of supply and demand.

The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.

The love of lucre, though sometimes carried to a ridiculous excess, a vicious excess, is the grand cause of prosperity to all States.

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

It was the time when they loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity.

Despite the recent conviction of many that we're headed back to inflation, I think deflation remains the more likely prospect. You've just got too much excess capacity in the world.

Everyone became brave from excess of terror.

Apparently, on New Texas, killing a politician was not malum in se, and was mallum prohibitorum only to the extent that what happened to the politician was in excess of what he deserved.

Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess.

You gotta take care of yourself; you cant do anything in excess.

One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.

Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!

Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable.

All is wholesome in the absence of excess.

Excess always carries it's own retributions.

Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.

There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty.

The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.