Excess Quotes

540 Excess quotes by 425 unique authors

Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as… — Bill Watterson
Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil togetherness,… — Soren Kierkegaard
Trimming consists of clipping off little bits here and there from those observations which differ most in excess from the mean, and in sticking them… — Charles Babbage
Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The obese is in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is larger than large.… — Jean Baudrillard
Consumerism has led us to become used to an excess and daily waste of food, to which, at times, we are no longer able to… — Pope Francis
The idea is there locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone. — Michelangelo
We often equate charity with visiting the sick, taking in casseroles to those in need, or sharing our excess with those who are less fortunate.… — Marvin J. Ashton
Eating healthy nutritious food is the simple and right solution to get rid of excess body weight effortlessly and become slim and healthy forever. — Subodh Gupta
There are very sophisticated, very time-consuming dishes to prepare; always from scratch, and always in excess of what you could possibly need. You tend to… — Anthony Bourdain
With the terrible earthquake and resulting tsunami that have devastated Japan, the only good news is that anyone exposed to excess radiation from the nuclear… — Ann Coulter
The whole compass of the language is tried to find sinonimies [synonyms] and circumlocutions for massacres and murder. Things never called by their common names.… — Edmund Burke
One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or that… — James Payn
Write on your doors the saying wise and old. "Be bold!" and everywhere - "Be bold; Be not too bold!" Yet better the excess Than… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Nothing Succeeds like excess! — Anna Dello Russo
The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results… — J. William Fulbright
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states. — Demosthenes
The primitive thinking of the supernaturally inclined amounts to what his psychiatric colleagues call a problem, or an idea, of reference. An excess of the… — Ian Mcewan
Young girls like the excess of any quality. Without knowing, they want to suffer, to suffer they must exaggerate; they like to have loud chords… — Elizabeth Bowen

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