Excess Quotes

540 Excess quotes by 425 unique authors

You don't hear TV cops griping because they have to enforce some Draconian law that shouldn't be on the books in the first place, or… — Tom Shales
The mystic must be steadily told,-All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Marital intercourse is certainly holy, lawful and praiseworthy in itself and profitable to society, yet in certain circumstances it can prove dangerous, as when through… — Saint Francis de Sales
Make me chaste and To what excesses will men not go for the sake of a religion in which they believe so little and which… — Jean de la Bruyere
I use the Clarisonic electronic skin cleansing system. It's great for removing excess oil and make-up and leaves my face feeling really smooth and clean.… — Fergie
All goes back to the earth, and so I do not desire pride of excess or power, but the contentments made by men who have… — Wendell Berry
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition. — Seneca the Younger
In excess altercation, truth is lost. — Publilius Syrus
As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer.… — Samuel Johnson
A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels,… — Samuel Johnson
Sir, I have no objection to a man's drinking wine, if he can do it in moderation. I found myself apt to go to excess… — Samuel Johnson
If there is anybody I detest, it is weak-minded sentimentalists-all those melancholy people who, out of an excess of sympathy for others, miss the thrill… — John Cheever
It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living. — Richard Le Gallienne
Pornography is the quadraphonics of sex. It adds a third and fourth track to the sexual act. It is the hallucination of detail that rules.… — Jean Baudrillard
When sages commend excess, Desire is sick. — Mason Cooley
The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess. — Walter Savage Landor
I think it absolutely necessary that the President should have the power of removing his subordinates from office; it will make him, in a peculiar… — James Madison
Alas, human vices, however horrible one might imagine them to be, contain the proof (were it only in their infinite expansion) of man's longing for… — Charles Baudelaire
To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too weak, but because… — Roland Barthes
Elephants suffer from too much patience. Their exhibitions of it may seem superb,-such power and such restraint, combined, are noble,-but a quality carried to excess… — Clarence Day

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