Best 292 quotes in «excess quotes» category

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect.

Excess of trouble may, for a time, distract and overwhelm the soul. Our Lord himself seems to have experienced somewhat of this. Our prayers, perhaps, are never more acceptable, than when they are offered in broken accents, in sighs, and groans.

Excess always carries its own retribution.

Excess capacity in people, machines, or property will be quickly absorbed.

Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.

Excess is excrement, ... Excrement retained in the body is a poison.

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

Excess always carries it's own retributions.

Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones.

Fame requires every kind of excess. I mean true fame, a devouring neon, not the sombre renown of waning statesmen or chinless kings.

Feeding a baby is like filling a hole with putty - you get it in and then you sort of shave off all the excess around the hole and get it back in, like you're spackling.

Following the Romanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away.

Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward. Rather, returning to a simpler way allows us to regain our dignity, puts us in touch with the land, and makes us value human contact again.

For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended.

Get your sense of outrage back, and your sense of defiance and spirit back, and try to put these pieces together and confront the excesses of empire at every turn.

Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward.

Giving is the safety valve that releases the excess pressure of wealth.

Have you ever wanted something so much that you would do anything to have it - even knowing that it was bad for you?" "Of course," Adam replied. "All truly enjoyable things in life are invariably bad for you - and they are even better when done to excess.

Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess.

Help the companion who is insecure; perhaps they do not have enough to supply their needs, while you retain an excess.

Heaven's Way is like stretching a bow. The high is lowered and the low is raised. Excess is reduced and deficiency is replenished. Heaven's Way reduces excess and replenishes deficiency. People's Way is not so. They reduce the deficient and supply the excessive.

He who holds on to the Way seeks no excess. Since he lacks excess, he can grow old in no need to be renewed.

He who indulges his sense in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and, to gratify the brute in him, displeases the man, and sets his two natures at variance.

High self esteem people can surely be knocked down by an excess of troubles, but they are quickerto pick themselves up again.

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.

How can I teach your children gentleness and mercy to the weak, and reverence for life, which in its nakedness and excess, is still a gleam of God's omnipotence, when by your laws, your actions and your speech, you contradict the very things I teach?

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.

How necessary it is at all times to watch against the attempted encroachment of power, and to prevent its running to excess.

If you subtracted all of the great artists who never drank, who never went to excess, you wouldn't have any more art left. What kind of poem are you gonna get out of a glass of iced tea?

I developed a deep, abiding fear of jeans, which I still have. I hold my breath and shut my eyes when I pull on a pair in the dressing room, afraid they will now, as then, get stuck at my hips and there I will stand, absurd, staring at the excess of hips that should, if I were a good person, be „slim“.

I do think that when you go into red states, they're - so-called red states - I think they're troubled with certain excesses with respect to the Patriot Act, but they're also concerned with making sure we're secure against terrorism.

If you're going to dedicate your career to ranting about the excesses of American capitalism, you probably shouldn't weigh 450 pounds.

If you think penguins are fat and waddle, you have never been attacked by one running at you in excess of 100 miles per hour.

If we look to the south, to Iran, which cannot be "accused" of excess democratic zeal - it goes without saying that the unstable situation does not prepare the ground for a democratic development.

Ignorance, as well as disapproval for the natural restraints placed on market excesses that capitalism and sound markets impose, cause our present leaders to reject capitalism and blame it for all the problems we face. If this fallacy is not corrected and capitalism is even further undermined, the prosperity that the free market generates will be destroyed.

I'm not lazy. I'm simply judicious about excess movement.

I had a lot of excess skin - I just needed to have it firmed

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.

I love the excess of Christmas. The shopping season that begins in September, the bad pop star recordings of Christmas carols, the decorations that don't know when to come down.

I love the excesses of beauty, there is never enough sunlight in the world I will live in, never enough room for love.

In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.

I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, 'I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.'

I'm too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.

I'm very sceptical about some of the excesses that I regard the Milibands of this world are leading towards. When you think about it, it's all been incredibly rapid - a year, a year and a half. And it's not a concern: it's an obsession. It's something very close to hysteria.

I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess.

I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.

In an excess of examples, the walk to globalization has additionally implied the minimization of women and young ladies. What's more that must change.

In fact, after having abolished the monarchy, the best of all governments, [the French Revolution] had transferred all the public power to the people - the people... ever easy to deceive and to lead into every excess

In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men. [Lat., Modus omnibus in rebus, soror, optimum est habitu; Nimia omnia nimium exhibent negotium hominibus ex se.]