Excess Quotes

540 Excess quotes by 425 unique authors

With regard to Banks, they have taken too deep and too wide a root in social transactions, to be got rid of altogether, if that… — James Madison
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later. — Charles Caleb Colton
A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health. — Clarence Day
This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything. — Jacques Delors
Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess! — Charles Dickens
There is moderation even in excess. — Benjamin Disraeli
Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle. — Will Durant
We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway. — Will Durant
Ocean acidification - the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is turning the oceans increasingly acid - is a slow but accelerating impact with… — Sylvia Earle
The Arctic is a place that historically, during all preceding human history, has largely been an icy realm with an impact on ocean currents. That,… — Sylvia Earle
Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street's excesses. In case we forgot, that was… — Rahm Emanuel
There must be an alternative between Hollywood and New York, between those two places psychically as well as geographically. The University of Iowa tries to… — Paul Engle
Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me. — Carrie Fisher
Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control their own economic… — Jim Hightower
I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I… — Henry James
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and… — John Keats
Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in… — Walter Savage Landor
I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the game to excess. — Annie Lennox

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