Excess Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.