Top 739 Excess Quotes & Sayings - Page 4
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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
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.
A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.
We've led pretty wholesome lives. We haven't lived life to excess like so many groups have done.
If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.
Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number.
One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
Let the mind be cheerful but calm. Never let it run into excesses, because every excess will be followed by a reaction.
Do not spend in excess like one who is careless of what is good, nor be miserly; the mean is best in every case.
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what is essential.
C++ is a ridiculously complicated travesty that few have the excess IQ points to understand enough not to screw up massively.
Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.
Lie and tell the waiter that you're deathly allergic to butter. This way you can enjoy the steak without all the excess fat.
It is supposable that, in the eyes of angels, a struggle down a dark lane and a battle of Leipsic differ in nothing but excess of wickedness.
As part of our research, we monitor just about every announced deal globally that is in excess of a billion dollars.
The dance lives in all mankind as a necessary motor-rhythmic expression of excess energy and the joy of living.
Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
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.
I interview about three thousand models yearly, and I must see almost 20 tons of excess avoirdupois annually.
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.
Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so.
There's only one podcast subject that can give Donald Trump a run for his money when it comes to vulgarity, excess, and base comedy, and that's football.
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
I try to stay clear of karaoke because it normally involves an excess amount of drinking.
There is a certain sort of excess that is interesting, don't you think? And America is, of course, the most excessive place.
Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice.
Rectitude carried to excess hardens into stiffness; benevolence indulged beyond measure sinks into weakness.
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.
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.
My conscience is really active. So I feel bad about spending excess amount of money on things.
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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.
Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?
The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots.
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.
The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange.
I think an excess of anything is bad, be it mobile phones, social media, private tuitions or watching television.
If you think penguins are fat and waddle, you have never been attacked by one running at you in excess of 100 miles per hour.
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.
High self esteem people can surely be knocked down by an excess of troubles, but they are quickerto pick themselves up again.
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.
I like to push myself to achieve a certain quality, eliminate the excess detail. I always want a high degree of purity.
Help the companion who is insecure; perhaps they do not have enough to supply their needs, while you retain an excess.
I have argued that the Soviet story is one of the interaction of speculative excess or utopian aspirations with refractory reality.
Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.
Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable.
We will downsize the government, motivate excess employees to become entrepreneurs, and increase the pay of a lean and mean bureaucracy.
Job growth well in excess of population increase would be a very good thing if it were only that easy.
How necessary it is at all times to watch against the attempted encroachment of power, and to prevent its running to excess.
I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.
Mars Volta was always about embracing what 'too much' was and the excess of it. I never thought there would be an audience for it.
Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones.
Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward.
There are more things to gain from eliminating excess than you might imagine: time, space, freedom, and energy, for example.
Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough.
For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.
Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness.
My mother was French Protestant, and my father was Italian Catholic, and their union was an excess of God, guilt and sauce.
I think I can safely say that, as adolescents, most people have excess energy to spare and need adventure, excitement, and a challenge.
