Excess Quotes

540 quotes by 432 authors

All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome,… — William Penn
During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant drinks and send a barrel… — Abraham Lincoln
No one will deny that the excessive use of alcohol and alcoholic beverages would do more than any other single factor to make impossible a… — William Lyon Mackenzie
The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever. — Mignon McLaughlin
I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or… — Bernard Berenson
In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of… — Khalil Gibran
Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
What if in my waking hours a sound should ring through the silent halls of hearing? ... Would the bow and string tension of life… — Helen Keller
Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty. — John Donne
A disease is never a mere loss or excess. There is always a reaction on the part of the organism or individual to restore, replace… — Oliver Sacks
New!Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards. — Neil Kinnock
A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow… — Thomas Carlyle
Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches. The other has… — Carl Sagan
Poor human nature cannot bear such strains as heavenly triumphs bring to it; there must come a reaction. Excess of joy or excitement must be… — Charles Spurgeon
Loners, if you catch them, are well worth the trouble. Not dulled by excess human contact, nor blasÃ© or focused on your crotch while jabbering… — Anneli Rufus
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess. — Seneca the Elder
Every time I criticize what I consider to be excesses or faults in the news business, I am accused of repression, and the leaders of… — Spiro T. Agnew
Think of yourself as a container for wealth. If your container is small and your money is big, what's going to happen? You will lose… — T. Harv Eker
Government ought to be as much open to improvement as anything which appertains to man, instead of which it has been monopolized from age to… — Thomas Paine
There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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