Excess Quotes - Page 10

Profusion gives pleasure up to a point; then we become squeamish.

Who has excess and supplies the world? Only the one who follows the Way.

Vulcans are so smart. There's no excess; it's just enough. I learned coming away from the film that less really is much more. Sometimes, as a human, you get so discombobulated with emotions, but this was easier, because it was s o clean to play.

The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness.

The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what is essential.

One should never regret one's excesses, only one's failures of nerve.

It seems that in the advanced stages of stupidity, a lack of ideas is compensated for by an excess of ideologies.

I love the unabashed over-buttered, over-creamed, deep-fried, gooey, over-sugared excessiveness of Amish food.

The passions are the humors of the mind, and the least excess sickens our judgment. If the disease spreads to the mouth, your reputation will be in danger.

But in Afghanistan, the general rule was that since you were fighting the Taliban, which was not a lawful government force, the Geneva Conventions did not apply. And that led to a lot of excesses in Afghanistan, excesses like Abu Ghraib that were already well-publicized.

The blood of youth burns not with such excess as gravity's revolt to wantonness.

Those that much covet are with gain so fond, For what they have not, that which they possess They scatter and unloose it from their bond, And so, by hoping more, they have but less; Or, gaining more, the profit of excess Is but to surfeit, and such griefs sustain, That they prove bankrupt in this poor-rich gain.

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

The beauty of service-type businesses is that if they're well run, you have huge excess cash flow.

People do, as long as you have markets, you'll have excesses.

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.

The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.

You don't hear TV cops griping because they have to enforce some Draconian law that shouldn't be on the books in the first place, or lamenting vindictive excesses in sentencing. Hollywood, supposedly a frothing cauldron of liberalism, has always been conservative on crime.

Television's escapist programming naturally continues to endorse living beyond one's means as the time-tested American Way and rarely depicts families or individuals wracked by the pressures and miseries that come with excess.

C++ is a ridiculously complicated travesty that few have the excess IQ points to understand enough not to screw up massively.

Donald Trump was seen for quite a long time as a punchline, the jokes about the excesses and the failures of the 1980s. And he had become, you know, a human shingle and a punchline.

The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.

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

The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.

I try to stay clear of karaoke because it normally involves an excess amount of drinking.