Excess Quotes

You're in a mess, and in excess.

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.

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

Tough times helped many commodities producers become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost-cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up.

Never order food in excess of your body weight.

In every aspect of life, including the economic dimension, we are always challenged to do the right thing. In many cases in the market system, which allows a great deal of latitude for human choice, people can get carried away to excess.

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Crime is a product of social 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 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.

There is moderation even in excess.

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

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

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.

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.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.