Excess Quotes · Page 11

Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . .

— Aristotle

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

— W. Somerset Maugham

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

— Saint John Chrysostom

You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.

— bell hooks

My conscience is really active. So I feel bad about spending excess amount of money on things.

— Syd

What are all the orgies of Bacchus when compared to the intoxication of someone who completely surrenders to continence!

— Karl Kraus

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

— Bahá'u'lláh

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

— Mahavira

The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and…

— John Updike

Work is the curse of the drinking class. I can resist everything except temptation. Moderation is a fatal thing - nothing succeeds…

— Oscar Wilde

Excesses are essentially gestures. It is easy to be extremely cruel, magnanimous, humble or self-sacrificing when we see ourselves as actors in…

— Eric Hoffer

Libertarians are believers in small government who really mean it -- no excuses, no exceptions. [For Libertarians], the excesses of government are…

— Richard Brookhiser

All goes back to the earth, and so I do not desire pride of excess or power, but the contentments made by…

— Wendell Berry

Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, Brags of his substance, not of ornament: They are but beggars that can count…

— William Shakespeare

I've heard Braggadocio about excess baggage charges, multiple unused hotel rooms, and rental cars held unused for long periods of time, which…

— Peter Menzel

The fact that many people overindulge, and lose themselves in excess, and make fools of themselves and act like idiots, is no…

— John S. Hall

... But as a Godless greed pursued its career from excess to excess, it provoked a sort of twin hostile brother, equally…

— Hilaire Belloc

“Sexual frenzy is our compensation for the tedious moments we must suffer in the passage of life. 'Nothing in excess,' professed the…

— Roman Payne

We cannot live without trade. A society can neither advance nor improve without excess of disposable income. This excess can only be…

— David Mamet

Not every action or emotion however admits of the observance of a due mean. Indeed the very names of some directly imply…

— Aristotle

As a myth of national purpose and as a program for individual conduct, the simple life has, in a sense, served as…

— David Shi

In Paris, you couldn't really turn around without seeing the result of lovers' bad decisions. An artist given to sexual excess was…

— Paula McLain

The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer.…

— Hannah More

To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too…

— Roland Barthes

“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom...You never know what is enough until you know what is more than…

— William Blake

The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.

— Alexander Hamilton

The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we had…

— Horace

There is a certain sort of excess that is interesting, don't you think? And America is, of course, the most excessive place.

— Ahmet Ertegun

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

— Warren Hellman

I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the…

— Annie Lennox

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

— Sam Palladio

To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless.

— Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste

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

— Eden Sher

Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.

— Oscar Wilde

Nothing exceeds like excess. Style got gout from having the best of the best.

— Jay Z

Parents who indulge themselves 'in moderation' may have children who indulge themselves to excess.

— Richard L. Evans

“Moderation has no creative force; the balance is sterile. Excess is not avoided, it is administered.”

— Horacio Marchand Flores

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

— Jacques Delors

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

— Hippocrates

“The thing about love is, when you’re raised with an excess, the overflow splashes onto those around you.”

— Hailey Edwards