Excess Quotes

The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness.

... if we have a dollar to spend on some wild excess, we shall spend it on a book, not on asparagus out of season.

My theory is that balance is key - nothing in excess.

Who has excess and supplies the world? Only the one who follows the Way.

Global food insecurity is increasing...the slim excess of growth in food production over population is narrowing.

the excess of all good things is mischievous.

It is such a great fault to talk too much that, in business and conversation, if what is good is also brief, it is doubly good, and one gains by brevity what one often loses by an excess of words.

My advice to girls: first, don't smoke - to excess; second, don't drink - to excess; third, don't marry - to excess.

We do not get ice-cream every where, and so, when we do, we are apt to dissipate to excess.

I've always thought of this city as Disneyland for adults. ... There's no danger of Las Vegas expiring from an excess of good taste.

When sages commend excess, Desire is sick.

Abbesses' recesses are not for excesses!

Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.

My mother was French Protestant, and my father was Italian Catholic, and their union was an excess of God, guilt and sauce.

High self esteem people can surely be knocked down by an excess of troubles, but they are quickerto pick themselves up again.

"The suspect had experienced a ballistic interlude earlier in the evening," Miss Pao said, "regrettably not filmed, and relieved himself of excess velocity by means of an ablative technique."

Wooden ships are a hippie dream, capsized in excess if you know what I mean.

We live in a time of excess - excess population, excess information.

In excess altercation, truth is lost.

Excess is not really something I consider a bad thing; especially when you are talking about living.

Wine, not too much, inspires and make the mind,to the soft joys of Venus strong inclined,which, buried in excess, unapt to love,stupidly lies and knows not hom to move

An excess of science will leave none of us alive.

Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Genius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always favorable to the side of reason.

Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion, the raw material of possible poems and histories.

Giving is the safety valve that releases the excess pressure of wealth.

Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on vanities of man's devising.

We reform the system. We save capitalism from its own excesses.

We can't tell an electorate...when you have something like in excess of 300 million people without any access to electricity at all that you have to put a cap on this.

I try to stay clear of karaoke because it normally involves an excess amount of drinking.

The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.

Excess capacity in people, machines, or property will be quickly absorbed.

The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.

Let the mind be cheerful but calm. Never let it run into excesses, because every excess will be followed by a reaction.

Donald Trump was seen for quite a long time as a punchline, the jokes about the excesses and the failures of the 1980s. And he had become, you know, a human shingle and a punchline.

C++ is a ridiculously complicated travesty that few have the excess IQ points to understand enough not to screw up massively.

Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence.

It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the tongues.

There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is the miracle of genius.

The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.

He who indulges his sense in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and, to gratify the brute in him, displeases the man, and sets his two natures at variance.

People do, as long as you have markets, you'll have excesses.

The beauty of service-type businesses is that if they're well run, you have huge excess cash flow.

A certain excess of animal spirits with thoughtless good-humor will often make more enemies than the most deliberate spite and ill-nature, which is on its guard, and strikes with caution and safety.

O love, be moderate, allay thy ecstasy, In measure rain thy joy, scant this excess!

The blood of youth burns not with such excess as gravity's revolt to wantonness.

Most of us try to do too much because we are secretly afraid we will not be able to do anything at all.

You create more space in your life when you turn your excess baggage to garbage.

Leaders don’t give excessive vocal orders. They humbly involve people and together cooperate with them to make a change happen.

Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody.