Excess Quotes

Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect.

It is better to err by excess of mercy than by excess of severity. . .Wilt thou become a Saint? Be severe to thyself but kind to others.

The idea is there locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone.

Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.

Life etches itself onto our faces as we grow older, showing our violence, excesses or kindnesses.

The obese is in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is larger than large. He no longer makes sense in some distinctive opposition, but in his excess, his redundancy.

When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying there is a problem with excess carbon dioxide emission, I think we ought to listen.

What we suffer from today is an excess of education.

This isn't a picture filled with wonder and a sense of fun; it's so jaded and crass that I almost wonder if it's a highly unscientific experiment designed to gauge how little audiences will settle for these days. Manic and multicolored, "Speed Racer" is an excess of nothingness.

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.

Conjuring is a profession in which no one errs through excess of modesty.

Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward. Rather, returning to a simpler way allows us to regain our dignity, puts us in touch with the land, and makes us value human contact again.

Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

The excess of pleasure is pain

It is concluded that artificial fluoridation appears to cause or induce about 20-30 excess cancer deaths for every 100,000 persons exposed per year after about 15-20 years.

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.

The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.

They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior

Rectitude carried to excess hardens into stiffness; benevolence indulged beyond measure sinks into weakness.

Every relationship of domination, of exploitation, of oppression is by definition violent, whether or not the violence is expressed by drastic means. In such a relationship, dominator and dominated alike are reduced to things- the former dehumanized by an excess of power, the latter by a lack of it. And things cannot love.

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.

The infallible criterion by which to distinguish the true from the would-be strategist is the degree of originality of his conceptions. It makes little difference whether this originality is carried to excess, as was the case with Steinitz and Nimzowitsch.

The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.

I'm too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.

Excess is part of my nature. Dullness is a disease. I really need danger and excitement. I'm never scared of putting myself out on a limb.

A great deal more failure is the result of an excess of caution than of bold experimentation with new ideas. The frontiers of the Kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution.

Conquer with forbearance The excesses of insolence.

If you're going to dedicate your career to ranting about the excesses of American capitalism, you probably shouldn't weigh 450 pounds.

We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty.

Poverty makes people sub-human Excess of wealth makes people inhuman

All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

In fact, after having abolished the monarchy, the best of all governments, [the French Revolution] had transferred all the public power to the people - the people... ever easy to deceive and to lead into every excess

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

I'm a conservative because I believe we're here on this earth to do a little more than crawl through life, comfortable in the cradle of government excess and oblivious to the duties required to keep this republic standing.

Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness.

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

Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.

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.

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

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.

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

Ive always believed the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Anything in excess is a poison.

I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.