Excess Quotes

540 Excess quotes by 425 unique authors

I'm a conservative because I believe we're here on this earth to do a little more than crawl through life, comfortable in the cradle of… — Allen West
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. — Oscar Wilde
Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses. — George Will
If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. — William Shakespeare
I love heavily tattooed women. I imagine their lives are filled with sensuality and excess, madness and generosity, impulsive natures and fights. They look like… — Margaret Cho
It was an excess of fantasy that killed the old United States, the whole Mickey Mouse and Marilyn thing, the most brilliant technologies devoted to… — J. G. Ballard
Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess. — Bill Watterson
My mother was French Protestant, and my father was Italian Catholic, and their union was an excess of God, guilt and sauce. — Mitch Albom
Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nastiness, and fabulous flashes of glory in the conjugal conspiracy. It was time… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I'm not lazy. I'm simply judicious about excess movement. — Jen Lancaster
When you live with a woman you learn something every day. So far I have learned that long hair will clog up the shower drain… — Audrey Niffenegger
I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things. — Albert Camus
I understood what he was doing, that he had spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty of graduating from college and now he… — Jon Krakauer
Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them. — Anais Nin
Poppies bleed petals of sheer excess. You and I, this sweet battle ground. — Janet Fitch
A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the… — Aldous Huxley
To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for… — Oscar Wilde
He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs were not loyal… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
...prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or… — Barbara Kingsolver
The charitable say in effect, 'I seem to have more than I need and you seem to have less than you need. I would like… — Maya Angelou

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