Top 739 Excess Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

People are rightfully upset about Wall Street abuses and excess.

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

I eat meat, poultry and fish in proper proportion - nothing to excess.

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

There are fads in life and old people indulge things to excess sometimes.

Wine in excess keeps neither secrets nor promises.

India's trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports.

Undergraduate life on college campuses tends in the direction of neopagan excess.

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

Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess.

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

I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.

It seems that in the advanced stages of stupidity, a lack of ideas is compensated for by an excess of ideologies.

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

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

Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.

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

Somehow I reached excess without ever noticing when I was passing through satisfaction.

There is indeed the possibility that the evolutionary process has, in gray antiquity, bred into us an excess of aggression.

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

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

Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess.

There is an excess both in happiness and misery above our power of sensation.

So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough.

Bend down, bend down. Excess is the only ease, so bend. The sun is in the tree. Put your mouth on mine. Bend down beam & slash, for Dread is dreamed-up-scenes of what comes after death. Is being fled from what bends down in pain. The elbow bends in the brain, lifts the cup. The worst is yet to dream you up, so bend down the intrigue you dreamed. Flee the hayneedle in the brain's tree. Excess allures by leaps. Stars burn clean. Oriole bitches and gleams. Dread is the fear of being less forever. So bend. Bend down and kiss what you see.

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

If you only use rich and luxurious ingredients, you end up with excess.

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

Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity.

Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.

I have had just an excess of energy. That's why I've always been active.

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

The excess of the voluptuary, like the austerities of the recluse, triumphs in the suffrage of perverted reason.

The eye deals with excess more easily than the stomach does.

New!Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.

Aggressiveness is not the main trouble with the human species, but rather an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.

I need to be fit and strong, and I don't want to carry any excess fat.

I guess anything in excess is no good for you, even things that are supposed to be healthy.

This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything.

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

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

Use, do not abuse... neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

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

A lot of the time, excess on a film set is just damaging.

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

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

Golf at its measured pace permits an electric excess of mental activity.

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

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

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

Don't accumulate if you do not need. The excess of wealth in your hands is for the society, and you are the trustee for the same.

Following the Romanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away.

African-Americans have rarely been the beneficiaries of Presidential rhetorical excess.

We miss the real by lack of attention, and create the unreal by excess of imagination.

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

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

Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.

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

Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest - but suffer from a constant strain.