Excess Quote by Henry Adams

American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows.

— John Philip Sousa

I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.

— Christopher Lasch

All that the world most needs today, is combined in the most seductive manner in his art, — the three great stimulants of exhausted…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I like artificial stimulants,” I protested. “They usually mean nobody’s trying to kill me. Unlike the natural kind.”

— Seanan McGuire

Every desire bears its death in its very gratification. Curiosity languishes under repeated stimulants, and novelties cease to excite and surprise, until at length…

— Washington Irving

We are close to dead. There are faces and bodies like gorged maggots on the dance floor, on the highway, in the city, in…

— Norman Mailer

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realised joy could be.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

For 50 years bike racers have been taking stimulants. Obviously we can do without them in a race, but then we will pedal 15…

— Jacques Anquetil

Formulae are the anaesthetics of thought, not its stimulants and to make any one think is far better worth while than cramming him with…

— Percival Lowell

A sense of power is the most intoxicating stimulant a mortal can enjoy.

— Ellen Swallow Richards

Success: a marvelous stimulant, bubbling with inspiration and incitement. But for all except the few who are strong and steadfast, there lurks beneath the…

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

I like to write early in the morning, like, 5 a.m. If I'm really on my game, I don't have any coffee or stimulants.…

— Travis Morrison