Top 564 Excessive Quotes & Sayings

There is no excess in the world so commendable as excessive gratitude.

Do not practise excessive humility.

Avoid excessive merriment. A mind in that state never becomes calm; it becomes fickle. Excessive merriment will always be followed by sorrow. Tears and laughter are near kin. People so often run from one extreme to the other.

The idea of excessive diversification is madness.

The Fed needs to adopt new tools, on its own and perhaps in cooperation with the other parts of the US government, to improve the economy from the bottom up. This includes increasing facilities for debt forgiveness for under-water mortgages and excessive student loans; increased credit facilities for small businesses and cooperatives; helping to underwrite mechanisms for creating affordable housing in cities; and more restrictive enforcement of financial regulatory rules to help rein in excessive banker risk and pay.

Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.

Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.

The blind pursuit of learning leads to excessive desires—the more you see, the more you want. Excessive desires, in turn, lead to anxiety and misery.

...whom he had saved from a life of excessive freedom

The last excessive feelings of delight are always grave.

Excessive love in loathing ever ends.

Among my greatest disappointments about the mutual fund industry - in addition to excessive costs and excessive focus on the short-term - is that fund managers have been passive participants in corporate governance.

When fear is excessive it can make many a man despair.

Currently computer graphics are used a great deal, but it can be excessive.

Open yourself to extreme, excessive, extravagant grace.

Yes, I talk about eating disorders and you know, excessive dieting and excessive exercising can be a sign of a mental illness... but when we talk about eating disorders... the issue is not the food or the exercise, the issue is a lack of healthy conception of self. That is the issue.

There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.

The real danger to the Earth lies in this excessive consumption.

Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.

Adolescent girls were fighting a mother's interference because they wanted her to acknowledge their independence. Whatever resentment they had was not towards a mother's excessive concern, or even excessive control, but towards her inability to see, and appreciate, their maturing identity.

Good taste rejects excessive nicety.

Excessive amounts of overtime are not conducive to safe working practices and environments.

Once you avoid the things that accelerate aging like smoking, obesity, excessive alcohol consumption, and excessive sun exposure, you've done about as much as you can to influence your aging process.

When you're thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility.

I love rap, and part of hip-hop culture is being excessive and absurd, and I can't be excessive and absurd without sounding corny. So I have to do it in a very truthful, weird way.

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

Joy, when it is excessive, overcomes as much as grief.

Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side, and serve to veil and even second the arts of influence on the other. Real patriots who may resist the intrigues of the favorite are liable to become suspected and odious, while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people, to surrender their interests.

The only sure way to stop excessive risk taking on Wall Street so you don't risk losing your job, or your savings or your home, is to put an end to the excessive economic and political power of Wall Street by busting up the big banks.

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

As nature requires whirlwinds and cyclones to release its excessive force in a violent revolt against its own existence, so the spirit requires a demonic human being from time to time whose excessive strength rebels against the community of thought and the monotony of moralityonly by looking at those beyond its limits does humanity come to know its own utmost limits.

Dark with excessive bright.

We think we know what's right. With excessive pride comes blindness.

Ask the gods nothing excessive.

I think it's a bit excessive.

Excessive animal protein is at the core of many chronic diseases.

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

No one ever lost out by excessive devotion to Christ.

An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.

I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.

Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.

A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune.

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. [Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.]

I hate movies that take a long time to shoot or directors that labor over every shot or do excessive amounts of coverage and excessive takes and don't keep things moving or constantly cutting.

People who have little to do are excessive talkers.

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.

Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.

It looks now as if everything has been profitable to me. And if the payment has sometimes been excessive, it was afer all the payment, for life, and there cannot be and is no excessive payment for life.

There are times where excessive innocence seems so monstrous that it becomes hateful.

Your sense of responsibility to others can never be excessive.

Excessive severity misses its own aim.

Excessive fear is always powerless.

Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

My biggest weakness is that I'm excessive. Fortunately for everyone concerned, I'm not as excessive as I used to be.

Interestingly, although the 'Books of Blood' were greeted with cries of righteous horror - and smirks - I didn't think of them as being particularly excessive. God knows what I did think was excessive at the time, but I didn't think they were.

One of the things that kills Buddhist spiritual life is excessive seriousness.

There is a connection between environment and stress on both ends, with excessive clutter and excessive attention to detail both holding the power to distract us from our ability to love fully, work productively and relax effectively. So, what makes sense to me is for each of us to think this through on a few fronts: what constitutes a comfortable environment for us, how much effort we're willing to put into it relative to other priorities, and how well-matched we need our partners' preferences to be to ours.

More than one cigar at a time is excessive smoking.