Excess Quotes

Nothing Succeeds like excess!

Libertarians are believers in small government who really mean it -- no excuses, no exceptions. [For Libertarians], the excesses of government are their best recruiters.

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men. [Lat., Modus omnibus in rebus, soror, optimum est habitu; Nimia omnia nimium exhibent negotium hominibus ex se.]

A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Sure, I did a lot of things in excess. But if you look at the core, the foundation of what I pursued, what red-blooded young American male in my position wouldn't?

Such excess of passion is quite out of fashion

There's a rule they don't teach you at the Harvard Business School. It is, if anything is worth doing, it's worth doing to excess.

Few people realize how badly they write. Nobody has shown them how much excess or murkiness has crept into their style.

We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.

Parents who indulge themselves 'in moderation' may have children who indulge themselves to excess.

The growing possibility of our destroying ourselves and the world with our own neglect and excess is tragic and very real.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

Excess weakens the spirits.

Excess is the common substitute for energy.

As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess.

The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.

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

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

The supply of good fellows is by no means in excess of the demand. A man has only to hoist the flag of hospitality to insure a very considerable amount of custom.

Now that I have written many words, and let out so many loves, for so many, and been altogether what I always was a woman of excess, of zeal and greed, I find the effort useless.

I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.

Excess always carries its own retribution.

In all matters moderation is desirable. If a thing is carried to excess, it will prove a source of evil.

Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice.

The eye that gazes upon the sun sees not the orb it looks upon, confounded by the excess of its brightness.

We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.

Everything in moderation, with occasional excess.

Austerity causes constipation; excess, diarrhea.

Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward.

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

Excess and deficiency are equally at fault.

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities. Prune his extravagance, sober him, and you undo him.

For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended.

Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings.

But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal Impulses and preferences.

Get your sense of outrage back, and your sense of defiance and spirit back, and try to put these pieces together and confront the excesses of empire at every turn.

Allow not nature more than nature needs.

Excess makes the heart grow fonder.

Never order food in excess of your body weight.

Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.

I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate--and volatile--I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry. I shall be rampant.

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.

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

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