Excess Quotes

We should travel light and live simply. Our enemy is not possessions but excess.

There is a kind of love, the excess of which forbids jealousy.

If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.

Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.

Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.

Help the companion who is insecure; perhaps they do not have enough to supply their needs, while you retain an excess.

It's no good to want to win still more when you have already won.

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.

Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.

Olympism is not a system - it is a state of mind. This state of mind has emerged from a double cult: that of effort and that of Eurythmy - a taste of excess and a taste of measure combined.

Anything in excess is a poison.

Ours is the wild tumult of the unchained storm, the tumult of the army on the march, clashing its cymbals, rioting with excess of energy. Need we be ashamed of it?

Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues

How necessary it is at all times to watch against the attempted encroachment of power, and to prevent its running to excess.

Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.

The new fashion is to talk about the most private parts of your life; other fashion is to repent of your excesses and to criticize the drugs that made you happy in the other times.

There is a growing body of evidence that radiation in excess of what the government says are the minimum amounts we should be exposed to are actually good for you and reduce cases of cancer.

Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess

Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.

The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange.

O Allah do not give me in excess lest I may be disobedient.

Do not spend in excess like one who is careless of what is good, nor be miserly; the mean is best in every case.

Language is wild - you can't fence it or tell it what to do - and it's the same with people. Even under the worst excesses of Stalinism or consumerism, the human spirit will still express itself.

In security analysis the prime stress is laid upon protection against untoward events. We obtain this protection by insisting upon margins of safety, or values well in excess of the price paid.

Crime is a product of social excess.

When you've tasted excess, everything else tastes bland.

Writing means revealing oneself to excess.

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

Poppies bleed petals of sheer excess. You and I, this sweet battle ground.

Fame requires every kind of excess. I mean true fame, a devouring neon, not the sombre renown of waning statesmen or chinless kings.

Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.

I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, 'I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.'

To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess

A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.

The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.

We must defend freedom of expression and if I had to chose, I prefer the excess of caricature over the excess of censure.

It is almost certain that excess in eating is the cause of almost all the diseases of the body, but its effects on the soul are even more disastrous.

Hitler [had an] excess of imagination, which very frequently foresaw what would happen but also very often went astray.

Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.

Bubbles are best identified by credit excesses, not valuation excesses. And there's no bigger credit excess than in China.

In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.

An excess of reason is itself a form of madness

The sage avoids extremity, excess, and extravagance.

I love you as one should, to excess. With folly, delight and despair.

A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer.

There is no excess in the world so commendable as excessive gratitude.

Anyone who believes a growth rate in excess of 15% per annum over the long term is attainable should pursue a career in sales, but avoid one in mathematics.

Sensual excess drives out pity in man.

Too often we assume that God has increased our income to increase our standard of living, when his stated purpose is to increase our standard of giving. (Look again at 2 Corinthians 8:14 and 9:11).

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