Excess Quotes

I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things that my family put up with. And there's something wildy decadent about the young-star lifestyle, and I just don't really see the point.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.

When sages commend excess, Desire is sick.

It's not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess.

Sure, I did a lot of things in excess. But if you look at the core, the foundation of what I pursued, what red-blooded young American male in my position wouldn't?

It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess.

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

Excess is success.

There are lots of businesses that are well in excess of $9 billion that have gone into bankruptcy, that have been mismanaged. And that has not served anyone very well.

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

I was the first in my peer group to get pregnant. All I craved was reassurance. I needed someone to tell me that all the seemingly random symptoms I had - weird things, such as excess saliva - were normal. And I was worried because I wasn't getting any morning sickness.

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

My theory is that balance is key - nothing in excess.

We'd dub the one that came off best into the final transcription. It gave us a chance to ad lib as much as we wanted, knowing that excess ad libbing could be sliced from the final product.

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.

The value of the beans for oil production, as well as for human food, has become recognized so quickly and so generally during the past year that the crop has acquired a commercial standing far in excess of its previous status.

Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

Bubbles are best identified by credit excesses, not valuation excesses. And there's no bigger credit excess than in China.

I've seen disgusting excess in business, and I've seen disgusting excess in Washington. But at the same time, I've certainly learned that Washington matters and that you can't ignore it, especially when you get into telecom.

Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed.

Crime is a product of social excess.

The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.