Excess Quotes - Page 12

An excess of law inescapably weakens the rule of law.

Certainly it was ordained as a scourge upon the pride of human wisdom, that the wisest of us all, should thus outwit ourselves, and eternally forego our purposes in the intemperate act of pursuing them.

Is not the action of nature like the stretching of a bow? The high, it pulls down; the low, it lifts up; It takes from what is in excess In order to make good of what is deficient. Who can take what they have in excess and offer it to others?

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

The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness.

An excess of hoarded wealth is the death of many.

African-Americans have rarely been the beneficiaries of Presidential rhetorical excess.

We traditionally in this world didn't have enough calories to feed all of us and had huge famines, not just in Africa, but had them across India, across Southeast Asia, and across China. Because of Borlaug's work at Simit and because of this we have huge excess, until very recently, in agricultural produce and the prices went through the floor.

The fact that many people overindulge, and lose themselves in excess, and make fools of themselves and act like idiots, is no reason for me to do these things. The reason for me to do these things is that I, too, am an idiot.

His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd.

She had never been a pretty crier. She sobbed the way she did everything else - with passion and excess.

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

True charity is liable to excesses and transports.

According to Kim Jong-Il's biography, they say he has been constantly accused of dishonesty, drunkenness and sexual excess. So if he lived here, he could be in Congress.

Inference is founded upon obvious reasons. Regard to reputation has a less active influence, when the infamy of a bad action is to be divided upon a number, than when it is to fall singly upon one. A spirit of faction . . . will often hurry the persons of whom they were composed into improprieties and excesses for which they would blush in a private capacity.

Enjoy the necessities of life but eschew the excesses.

The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs down and prostates the mind also.

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.

On infrastructure, there's a potential for Donald Trump to reach out to Democrats. He's talking about infrastructure spending far in excess of what any Republicans would have considered under a Democratic president.

An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.

There is an excess both in happiness and misery above our power of sensation.

In charity there is no excess.

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

Reality is a creation of our excesses.

I lived my teenage years in my 20s when I sort of left home and became Elton John success, then it became Elton John excess... Everything I couldn't do when I was younger I did 10 times over. I was having the time of my life. I was becoming the person that I wanted to be.