Excess Quotes

540 Excess quotes by 425 unique authors

The excess of pleasure is pain — Almeida Garrett
Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn, perhaps) there are… — Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly
He who holds on to the Way seeks no excess. Since he lacks excess, he can grow old in no need to be renewed. — Laozi
The sage avoids extremity, excess, and extravagance. — Laozi
Heaven's Way is like stretching a bow. The high is lowered and the low is raised. Excess is reduced and deficiency is replenished. Heaven's Way… — Laozi
Who has excess and supplies the world? Only the one who follows the Way. — Laozi
The ideas of individual supremacy and the right of free expression, when carried to excess, have not worked. They have made it difficult to keep… — Lee Kuan Yew
A great deal more failure is the result of an excess of caution than of bold experimentation with new ideas. The frontiers of the Kingdom… — J. Oswald Sanders
It's all about gold. It's all about gold, gold, gold, gold! Excess! — Anna Dello Russo
An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more. I… — Sebastian Horsley
Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not aÂ 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

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