Excess Quotes · Page 12

Mars Volta was always about embracing what 'too much' was and the excess of it. I never thought there would be an…

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

Too great carelessness, equally with excess in dress, multiplies the wrinkles of old age, and makes its decay still more conspicuous.

— Jean de la Bruyere

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

— Norman Lear

Real short- and long-term rates were relatively high in the late-1990s, so financial excess can also arise without a low-rate environment.

— Jerome Powell

I drink to excess, I gamble to excess, but everyone knows it, so it's not a big deal.

— Oscar Goodman

Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

— Ralph Blum

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

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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

— Jay Z

Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The more local and settled a culture, the better it stays put, the less the damage. It is the foreigner whose road…

— Wendell Berry

The high-handed bureaucratic excesses of the IRS are a national disgrace ... riding roughshod over the taxpayers and making a joke out…

— Paul Laxalt

The first half of fiscal 2006 has been exceptional for Cochlear. Importantly, Cochlear capitalized on a number of opportunities in this half…

— Chris Roberts

How can I teach your children gentleness and mercy to the weak, and reverence for life, which in its nakedness and excess,…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I understood what he was doing, that he had spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty of graduating from college…

— Jon Krakauer

For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be…

— Anonymous

Onlookers frequently confuse edge with style...Edge means generating excess returns because of mispricing. Style suggests being in the right place at the…

— Michael Mauboussin

Bend down, bend down. Excess is the only ease, so bend. The sun is in the tree. Put your mouth on mine.…

— Stan Rice

When I moved to L. A. with this little wimpy garage band, the first people we met were the Doors. Then we…

— Alice Cooper

Knowledge can be heady stuff, but it easily leads to an excess of zeal! -- to illusions of grandeur and a desire…

— Hugh Nibley

I sat at the foot of a huge tree, a statue of the night, and tried to make an inventory of all…

— Octavio Paz

Error is multiform (for evil is a form of the unlimited, as in the old Pythagorean imagery, and good of the limited),…

— Aristotle

Children who willingly participate in sexual acts have the right to make that decision as well, even if it's distasteful to us…

— Mary Ruwart

Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Ignorance, as well as disapproval for the natural restraints placed on market excesses that capitalism and sound markets impose, cause our present…

— Ron Paul

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

My mother was French Protestant, and my father was Italian Catholic, and their union was an excess of God, guilt and sauce.

— Mitch Albom

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

— Seth Klarman

A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.

— William E. Gladstone

I've never understood haute cuisine. I've never even understood spending in excess of 15 minutes - or $15 - procuring something to eat.

— Cord Jefferson

The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.

— Aristotle

“Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.”

— Shakespeare

In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men.

— Titus Maccius Plautus

I think you get people taking things to excess in all fields, doctors, lawyers - -it happens to all kinds of people.

— John Frusciante

His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd.

— John Milton

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

— Aristotle

A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson