Excess Quotes

540 Excess quotes by 425 unique authors

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 blasé 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
Only to often on meeting scientific men, even those of genuine distiction, one finds that they are dull fellows and very stupid. They know one… — H. L. Mencken
When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt;… — Stephen King
Today Christians ... stand at the head of [this country]... I pledge that I never will tie myself to parties who want to destroy Christianity… — Adolf Hitler
It will be possible in a few more years to build radio controlled rockets which can be steered into such orbits beyond the limits of… — Arthur C. Clarke
Confusion and clutter are failures of design, not attributes of information. And so the point is to find design strategies that reveal detail and complexity… — Edward Tufte
Inference is founded upon obvious reasons. Regard to reputation has a less active influence, when the infamy of a bad action is to be divided… — James Madison
What we should be very concerned about is the excesses and the abuses. Where we see hunts where the fox is torn away out of… — Unknown Author
Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away... Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat)… — Calvin Trillin
For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended. — Euripides
Bubbles are best identified by credit excesses, not valuation excesses. And there's no bigger credit excess than in China. — James Chanos

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