Excess Quotes
Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.
A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
Perhaps I have lived my life to excess, but know what — if I had it to do over again, I would overdo it again.
The significance and influence of just one BNP councillor is far in excess of the council powers such an elected figure can, in reality, command.
Whenever we have excess, giving should be our natural response. It should be the automatic decision, the obvious thing to do in light of Scripture and human need.
One must not permit oneself excesses, except with persons whom one wishes soon to leave.
Though a wide ocean separates the United States from Europe, yet there are various considerations that warn us against an excess of confidence or security.
Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity.
Feeding a baby is like filling a hole with putty - you get it in and then you sort of shave off all the excess around the hole and get it back in, like you're spackling.
I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the game to excess.
There are very sophisticated, very time-consuming dishes to prepare; always from scratch, and always in excess of what you could possibly need. You tend to kill your guests with kindness around here.
The passions are the humors of the mind, and the least excess sickens our judgment. If the disease spreads to the mouth, your reputation will be in danger.
I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.
Job growth well in excess of population increase would be a very good thing if it were only that easy.
Once one becomes a man, he can and must make his own decisions. But I do offer warning. Even a good thing can become destructive if taken to excess.
Excess of love, did ye say? There was no excess, there was defect. She loved her son too little, not too much. If she had loved him more there'd be no difficulty.
Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed.
It seems that in the advanced stages of stupidity, a lack of ideas is compensated for by an excess of ideologies.
Ah, Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
The dance lives in all mankind as a necessary motor-rhythmic expression of excess energy and the joy of living.
Why not begin operating under the idea that God has given us excess, not so we could have more, but so we could give more?
Long-married couples balance their checkbooks as a substitute for love-making, or they refuse each other love by protesting one another's financial error or excess.
I love the excesses of beauty, there is never enough sunlight in the world I will live in, never enough room for love.
There is an excess both in happiness and misery above our power of sensation.
At the heart of the matter of masculine excess is a great longing for the love and approval of a father, a man who can tell another man that his masculinity is splendid enough and he can now relax.
In time of this grave national danger, when all excess income should go to win the war, no American citizen ought to have a net income, after he has paid his taxes, of more than $25,000 a year.
If we look to the south, to Iran, which cannot be "accused" of excess democratic zeal - it goes without saying that the unstable situation does not prepare the ground for a democratic development.
The media is almost entirely about defining the subject, defining the citizen, as one of three things: a consumer, a threat in this new age of surveillance, or as utterly disposable. Excess.
In an excess of examples, the walk to globalization has additionally implied the minimization of women and young ladies. What's more that must change.
I can't think of a time in the history of man when food was in excess. We're dealing with the same old problems we've dealt with for 60,000 years.
The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs down and prostates the mind also.
Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.
According to Kim Jong-Il's biography, they say he has been constantly accused of dishonesty, drunkenness and sexual excess. So if he lived here, he could be in Congress.
Too great carelessness, equally with excess in dress, multiplies the wrinkles of old age, and makes its decay still more conspicuous.
She had never been a pretty crier. She sobbed the way she did everything else - with passion and excess.
His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd.
African-Americans have rarely been the beneficiaries of Presidential rhetorical excess.
The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness.