Excess Quotes · Page 3

Giving is the safety valve that releases the excess pressure of wealth.

— Randy Alcorn

I have cut away what I call the excess stuff in my life.

— Julian Bream

An excess of law inescapably weakens the rule of law.

— Laurence Tribe

An excess of science will leave none of us alive.

— R. A. Lafferty

Such excess of passion is quite out of fashion

— Edward Gorey

“When enough is not enough, a Hedonist is born.”

— Sukant Ratnakar

When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, no worthiness.

— Euripides

If you only use rich and luxurious ingredients, you end up with excess.

— Alvin Leung

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

— Shaun Hick

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

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Bernard Tschumi

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

— Anonymous

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

I am in Rome! Oft as the morning ray Visits these eyes, waking at once I cry, Whence this excess of joy?…

— Samuel Rogers

I don't want to drive the markets crazy. I don't want to create trouble, but rather order and rules and norms. We…

— Francois Hollande

Television's escapist programming naturally continues to endorse living beyond one's means as the time-tested American Way and rarely depicts families or individuals…

— Tom Shales

Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we…

— Samuel Johnson

Donald Trump was seen for quite a long time as a punchline, the jokes about the excesses and the failures of the…

— Timothy L. O'Brien

“Now take all the delights of the earth, melt them into one single delight, and cast it entire into a single man…

— Roland Barthes

O Christ Jesus, really present upon the altar, I cast myself down at Your feet; may all adoration be offered to You…

— Columba Marmion

He [man] abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work…

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

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

The Declaration [of Independence] was not a protest against government, but against the excess of government. It prescribed the proper role of…

— Gerald R. Ford

We must take the best from the left and the best from the right to devise new strategies for the global twenty-first…

— Camille Paglia

Alas, human vices, however horrible one might imagine them to be, contain the proof (were it only in their infinite expansion) of…

— Charles Baudelaire

I developed a deep, abiding fear of jeans, which I still have. I hold my breath and shut my eyes when I…

— Marya Hornbacher

Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice…

— Bill Watterson

Our inspired Constitution is wisely designed to protect from excesses of political power, but it can do little to protect us from…

— Neal A. Maxwell

Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities his preeminence over them simply and solely…

— William James

A lot of the time, excess on a film set is just damaging.

— Bennett Miller

“I decided excess, even in health, was not good for anyone.”

— Ron Adams

Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence.

— Umberto Eco

A garlic caress is stimulating. A garlic excess soporific.

— Curnonsky

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

— Christopher Marlowe

I would rather have regrets of excess than regrets of denial.

— Jeanette Winterson

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“She was brave from excess of grief”

— Edith Hamilton Mythology