Excess Quotes

540 Excess quotes by 425 unique authors

Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward. — Yvon Chouinard
Whenever we have excess, giving should be our natural response. It should be the automatic decision, the obvious thing to do in light of Scripture… — Randy Alcorn
Most of all, I love Manchester. The crumbling warehouses, the railway arches, the cheap abundant drugs. That's what did it in the end. Not the… — Tony Wilson
Excess of trouble may, for a time, distract and overwhelm the soul. Our Lord himself seems to have experienced somewhat of this. Our prayers, perhaps,… — Charles Simeon
How many young girls there are who do not see any wrongdoing in following certain shameless styles like so many sheep. They certainly would blush… — Pope Pius XII
It is almost certain that excess in eating is the cause of almost all the diseases of the body, but its effects on the soul… — Alphonsus Liguori
One must not permit oneself excesses, except with persons whom one wishes soon to leave. — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess. — Will Oldham
Enjoy the necessities of life but eschew the excesses. — Ian Gardner
All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another. — Hippocrates
Withhold no good impulse. You may fear that you will run to excess and squander too much, but those feelings are born of fear. In… — Deepak Chopra
Excess is the common substitute for energy. — Marianne Moore
Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from… — Plato
The dance lives in all mankind as a necessary motor-rhythmic expression of excess energy and the joy of living. — Curt Sachs
His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd. — John Milton
Invention is an Heroic thing, and plac'd above the reach of a low, and vulgar Genius. It requires an active, a bold, a nimble, a… — Thomas Sprat
What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating — Jean Anouilh
I love you as one should, to excess. With folly, delight and despair. — Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse
I advise other companies' CEOs, don't fall into the trap where you go, 'Where's the growth? Where's the growth?' Where's the growth?' They feel a… — Jamie Dimon
[I have seen] workers in whom certain morbid affections gradually arise from some particular posture of the limbs or unnatural movements of the body called… — Bernardino Ramazzini
My advice to girls: first, don't smoke - to excess; second, don't drink - to excess; third, don't marry - to excess. — Mark Twain
Men are very apt to run into extremes, hatred to England may carry come into an excess of Confidence in France... I am heartily disposed… — George Washington
Conjuring is a profession in which no one errs through excess of modesty. — Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin
Somehow I reached excess without ever noticing when I was passing through satisfaction. — Ashleigh Brilliant
He [man] abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work only to satisfy… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

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