Excess Quotes · Page 9

It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess.

— Will Oldham

O Allah do not give me in excess lest I may be disobedient.

— Umar

“Having too much of anything results in chaos, confusion and clutter.”

— Geralin Thomas

Ive always believed the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

— Woody Harrelson

A garlic caress is stimulating. A garlic excess soporific.

— Curnonsky

“She was brave from excess of grief”

— Edith Hamilton Mythology

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

— Christopher Marlowe

“You create more space in your life when you turn your excess baggage to garbage.”

— Chinonye J. Chidolue

Anywhere you have sustained excess moisture and organic material, you will keep getting mould.

— Bryan Baeumler

Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

— Voltaire

There are fads in life and old people indulge things to excess sometimes.

— Dennis Skinner

One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.

— Joseph Addison

Fame requires every kind of excess. I mean true fame, a devouring neon, not the sombre renown of waning statesmen or chinless…

— Don DeLillo

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

— John Henry Newman

In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men. [Lat., Modus omnibus in rebus, soror, optimum…

— Plautus

Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The nature of markets, and that includes player acquisition markets, is such that sooner or later any set of successful formulae that…

— John W. Henry

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by…

— Walter Savage Landor

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

— Horace

[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

With all its excesses, the modern impressionistic movement has given us one discovery, the color violet. It is the only discovery of…

— Joaquin Sorolla

The United States has to go through structural reforms in terms of improving our education system or revamping our infrastructure or, you…

— Barack Obama

Although a firm swat could bring a recalcitrant child swiftly into line, the changes were usually external, lasting only as long as…

— Mary Blakely

If our leaders are to enjoy the trappings of their position in the hierarchy, then we expect them to offer us protection.…

— Simon Sinek

“So exiled have even basic questions of freedom become from the political vocabulary that they sound musty and ridiculous, and vulnerable to…

— Laura Kipnis

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

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

— Kenny Smith

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

— David Easton

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

— Mindy Kaling

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

— Jeanette Winterson

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

— Charles Dickens

Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.

— Charles Caleb Colton

The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.

— Democritus

An excess of hoarded wealth is the death of many.

— Juvenal

All is wholesome in the absence of excess.

— Moliere

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

— Ron Adams