Excess Quotes · Page 8

“Il ne faut jamais rien outrer: One must do nothing in excess”

— Leo Tolstoy

Allah loves moderation and hates extravagance and excess.

— Umar

I'm not lazy. I'm simply judicious about excess movement.

— Jen Lancaster

In excess altercation, truth is lost.

— Publilius Syrus

Everyone became brave from excess of terror.

— Gustave Flaubert

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

— Jean de la Bruyere

“All Excess is ill: But Drunkenness is of the worst Sort.”

— William Penn

My theory is that balance is key - nothing in excess.

— L'Wren Scott

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

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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

— Ralph Blum

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

— Oscar Goodman

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

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

— Norman Lear

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

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

God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is…

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— Columba Marmion

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 that I have written many words, and let out so many loves, for so many, and been altogether what I always…

— Anne Sexton

The Dance can, with the aid of music, rise to the heights of poetry. On the other hand, through an excess of…

— August Bournonville

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

Tis possible, young sir, that some excess Mars youthful judgment and old men's no less; Yet we must take our counsel as…

— Arthur Hugh Clough

Rock 'n' Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility…

— Greil Marcus

There is just so much excess in terms of the market for self-remodeling. I think most women are perfectly gorgeous and beautiful…

— Eve Ensler

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

Sir, I have no objection to a man's drinking wine, if he can do it in moderation. I found myself apt to…

— Samuel Johnson

If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate…

— 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

As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that…

— Samuel Johnson

I think it absolutely necessary that the President should have the power of removing his subordinates from office; it will make him,…

— James Madison

There are, then, three states of mind ... two vices--that of excess, and that of defect; and one virtue--the mean; and all…

— Aristotle

As long as you have markets, you'll have excesses. People went crazy with tulip bulbs. They went crazy with the South Sea…

— Howard Warren Buffett

Everything in moderation, with occasional excess.

— Neil Peart

People are rightfully upset about Wall Street abuses and excess.

— Andrew Cuomo

Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.

— John Donne

Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues

— Aristotle

Crime is a product of social excess.

— Vladimir Lenin

You gotta take care of yourself; you cant do anything in excess.

— Jorge Posada

The excess skin, especially in my neck, was driving me crazy.

— Paul Nassif

It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.

— Richard Le Gallienne