Excess Quotes

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating.

Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.

Crime is a product of social excess.

I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.

The Irish move to a very low corporation tax has generated very significant revenue growth, considerably in excess of Britain's, where a slower economy has been combined with a number of stealth taxes.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or that any embarrassment which might arise would be from excess of material. I find this, however, far from being the case.

We never search for scandal, but we use it if it cries out to excess.

There is moderation even in excess.

All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects.

Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me.

Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents.

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the game to excess.

Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

Nothing exceeds like excess.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.

When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying there is a problem with excess carbon dioxide emission, I think we ought to listen.

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.

Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I think independent film is very confused, because there's excess pressure in the marketplace for entertainment to pay off.