Excess Quotes
We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men, and coquetry in women.
It is supposable that, in the eyes of angels, a struggle down a dark lane and a battle of Leipsic differ in nothing but excess of wickedness.
Hardly anyone still reads nowadays. People make use of the writer only in order to work off their own excess energy on him in a perverse manner, in the form of agreement or disagreement.
The excess of the voluptuary, like the austerities of the recluse, triumphs in the suffrage of perverted reason.
Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.
You go through a process of refinement and getting rid of the excesses of your early youth in terms of your excitement about what theatre can do.
In excess, most endeavors and possessions take on the characteristics of their opposite.
Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.
As frost, raised to its utmost intensity, produces the sensation of fire, so any good quality, overwrought and pushed to excess, turns into its own contrary.
Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness.
America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.
I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.
The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.
Aggressiveness is not the main trouble with the human species, but rather an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.
We must rejoice when love is great, and pardon its excess, for love is the staff of life, and life without love is life in vain.
Somehow I reached excess without ever noticing when I was passing through satisfaction.
Young girls like the excess of any quality. Without knowing, they want to suffer, to suffer they must exaggerate; they like to have loud chords struck on them.
when I came to know Greek art I instantly understood that excess and perfection are enemies; yet on the other hand this world and the millions of worlds around us live by fire ... !
That the American, by temperament, worked to excess, was true; work and whiskey were his stimulants; work was a form of vice; but he never cared much for money or power after he earned them.
God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent.
There is no safe dose of radiation since radiation is cumulative. Harm in the form of excess human cancer occurs at all doses of ionizing radiation, down to the lowest conceivable dose and dose rate.
The high-handed bureaucratic excesses of the IRS are a national disgrace ... riding roughshod over the taxpayers and making a joke out of our rule of laws.
To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless.
Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?
Well: the day is a poem but too much Like one of Jeffers's, crusted with blood and barbaric omens Painful to excess, inhuman as a hawk's cry.
Winter's palette is clear and spare, restrictive enough to curb the excesses of even the most daring gardeners.
Make as much racket as you like people. Noise is life and an excess of noise is a sign that life is good. There will be time for us all to be quiet when we are safely dead.
Had you but seen it, I promise you, your high-minded principles would have melted like candle wax. Never would you have wished such beauty away.
Clearly, America's dysfunctional food culture must bear some of the blame for our excess pounds, but it's likely our walking-averse lifestyles contribute as well.
I think I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things that my family put up with.
Elephants suffer from too much patience. Their exhibitions of it may seem superb,-such power and such restraint, combined, are noble,-but a quality carried to excess defeats itself.
It's my personal opinion and I'm not espousing it to anybody else, I think your immune system and how healthy you are determines how you react to any excess of any kind.
What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.
The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what is essential.
I think you get people taking things to excess in all fields, doctors, lawyers - -it happens to all kinds of people.
As it acts in the world, the Tao is like the bending of a bow. The top is bent downward; the bottom is bent up. It adjusts excess and deficiency so that there is perfect balance.
