Excess Quotes

540 quotes by 425 authors

Withhold no good impulse. You may fear that you will run to excess and squander too much, but those feelings are born of fear. In… — Deepak Chopra
Excess is the common substitute for energy. — Marianne Moore
Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from… — Plato
The dance lives in all mankind as a necessary motor-rhythmic expression of excess energy and the joy of living. — Curt Sachs
His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd. — John Milton
Invention is an Heroic thing, and plac'd above the reach of a low, and vulgar Genius. It requires an active, a bold, a nimble, a… — Thomas Sprat
What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating — Jean Anouilh
I love you as one should, to excess. With folly, delight and despair. — Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse
I advise other companies' CEOs, don't fall into the trap where you go, 'Where's the growth? Where's the growth?' Where's the growth?' They feel a… — Jamie Dimon
[I have seen] workers in whom certain morbid affections gradually arise from some particular posture of the limbs or unnatural movements of the body called… — Bernardino Ramazzini
My advice to girls: first, don't smoke - to excess; second, don't drink - to excess; third, don't marry - to excess. — Mark Twain
Men are very apt to run into extremes, hatred to England may carry come into an excess of Confidence in France... I am heartily disposed… — George Washington
Conjuring is a profession in which no one errs through excess of modesty. — Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin
Somehow I reached excess without ever noticing when I was passing through satisfaction. — Ashleigh Brilliant
He [man] abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work only to satisfy… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men, and coquetry in… — Robert Adam
A garlic caress is stimulating. A garlic excess soporific. — Curnonsky
When an individual wishes to stand in opposition to authority, he does best to find support for his position from others in his group. The… — Stanley Milgram
Ours is the wild tumult of the unchained storm, the tumult of the army on the march, clashing its cymbals, rioting with excess of energy.… — Liam O'Flaherty
The second assault on Fallujah was a monument to brutality and atrocity made in the United States of America. Like the Spanish city of Guernica… — Dahr Jamail

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