Excess Quotes · Page 15

Hitler [had an] excess of imagination, which very frequently foresaw what would happen but also very often went astray.

— Alfred Jodl

Excess into muscle. Jesus pill binge. Water into wine. Devil in a syringe.

— Angelspit

The problem with certain Englishmen is drinking to excess, the systematic search for drunkenness.

— Marcel Desailly

We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess…

— Peter Kreeft

“To the starved eyes of one such as I, there seemed to be an excess of muchness”

— Anonymous

Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.

— Bernard Tschumi

Excess in all other Things whatever, as well as in Meat and Drink, is also to be avoided.

— Benjamin Franklin

“The world is full of people who will help you manufacture tornados in order to blow out a match.”

— Shaun Hick

He pass'd the flaming bounds of place and time: The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze, He…

— Thomas Gray

“At its strongest and wildest and most authentic, love is a demon. It is a religion, a high-risk adventure, an act of…

— Cristina Nehring

The good thing about New Orleans is that, overall, it's an accepting place. It's accepting of eccentricity, it's accepting of excess, it's…

— Christopher Rice

[On Addis Ababa:] Among the city's handicaps are an immaturity for which no one can be blamed, as it was founded only…

— Dervla Murphy

Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per…

— John Crowe Ransom

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom, as William Blake said. Yet only if it is the excess of…

— John Lars Zwerenz

Further, an excess of legislation defeats its own ends. It makes the whole population criminals, and turns them all into police and…

— Aleister Crowley

[A new all-encompassing national identification system] contradicts some of our most sacrosanct American principles of personal liberty and expectations of privacy and…

— Bill McCollum

An author describing the methods of intensive farming, or the excesses of sport hunting, or even the harsher uses of animals in…

— Matthew Scully

The charitable say in effect, 'I seem to have more than I need and you seem to have less than you need.…

— Maya Angelou

I'm an actor and a writer and a showrunner and I edit my show. ... I have a job that three people…

— Mindy Kaling

In the Gaia theory air, water, and soil are major components of one central organism, planet Earth. What we typically think of…

— David Easton

Misfortune occurs or can occur to anyone, of any sort of character. The eudaimonic has more resources to avoid it (being in…

— Kenny Smith

He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

We ought always to conform to the manners of the greater number, and so behave as not to draw attention to ourselves.…

— Moliere

I wonder what especial sanctity attaches itself to fifteen minutes. It is always the maximum and the minimum of time which will…

— Agnes Repplier

How necessary it is at all times to watch against the attempted encroachment of power, and to prevent its running to excess.

— Thomas Paine

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

— Lemmy

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

— Euripides

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— Ashleigh Brilliant

Do not spend in excess like one who is careless of what is good, nor be miserly; the mean is best in…

— Pythagoras

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

— Alfred North Whitehead

“Oh, my dear, how too marvelous! I've longed all my life to eat a flamingo.”

— Compton Mackenzie

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

— Arthur Koestler

The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

The growing possibility of our destroying ourselves and the world with our own neglect and excess is tragic and very real.

— Billy Graham

It is supposable that, in the eyes of angels, a struggle down a dark lane and a battle of Leipsic differ in…

— Robert Aris Willmott

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

— Aristotle

In excess, most endeavors and possessions take on the characteristics of their opposite.

— Tim Ferriss

The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with…

— Horace