Excess Quotes

540 Excess quotes by 425 unique authors

As it acts in the world, the Tao is like the bending of a bow. The top is bent downward; the bottom is bent up.… — Laozi
People are rightfully upset about Wall Street abuses and excess. — Andrew Cuomo
The boom was healthy too, even with its excesses. Because what this incredible valuation craze did was draw untold sums of billions of dollars into… — Andy Grove
Your profits are going to be cut down to a reasonably low level by taxation. Your income will be subject to higher taxes. Indeed in… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition - and perchance to some excess - I look upon all… — Michel de Montaigne
Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts. — Bernard Tschumi
O love, be moderate, allay thy ecstasy, In measure rain thy joy, scant this excess! — William Shakespeare
...whatever the self-righteous excesses of the environmentalist left, it is impossible to be true to traditional conservative values (to say nothing of the Christian faith… — Rod Dreher
A television advertisement must illustrate the scientific method to substantiate any claim.... That is why stains are lifted, ring-around-the-collar is removed, paper towels become soaked,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Stock market corrections, although painful at the time, are actually a very healthy part of the whole mechanism, because there are always speculative excesses that… — Ron Chernow
The infallible criterion by which to distinguish the true from the would-be strategist is the degree of originality of his conceptions. It makes little difference… — Alexander Alekhine
An author describing the methods of intensive farming, or the excesses of sport hunting, or even the harsher uses of animals in science writes with… — Matthew Scully
Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw… — William Shakespeare
Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason. — Blaise Pascal
The growing possibility of our destroying ourselves and the world with our own neglect and excess is tragic and very real. — Billy Graham
Many Christians are either woefully deficient in their knowledge of Scripture or noticeably devoid of any experience of God's power. The Lord never intended this… — Sam Storms
How necessary it is at all times to watch against the attempted encroachment of power, and to prevent its running to excess. — Thomas Paine
The saints differ from us in their exuberance, the excess of our human talents. Moderation is not their secret. It is in the wildness of… — Phyllis McGinley
The difference between God and the devil is in nothing except in unselfishness and selfishness. The devil knows as much as God, is as powerful… — Swami Vivekananda
Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency. — Aristotle
Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as… — Bill Watterson
Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil togetherness,… — Soren Kierkegaard
Trimming consists of clipping off little bits here and there from those observations which differ most in excess from the mean, and in sticking them… — Charles Babbage
Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks… — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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