Excess Quotes - Page 3

The new fashion is to talk about the most private parts of your life; other fashion is to repent of your excesses and to criticize the drugs that made you happy in the other times.

Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.

Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues

A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.

Do not spend in excess like one who is careless of what is good, nor be miserly; the mean is best in every case.

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.

There is a growing body of evidence that radiation in excess of what the government says are the minimum amounts we should be exposed to are actually good for you and reduce cases of cancer.

It is almost certain that excess in eating is the cause of almost all the diseases of the body, but its effects on the soul are even more disastrous.

Crime is a product of social excess.

O Allah do not give me in excess lest I may be disobedient.

Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.

When you've tasted excess, everything else tastes bland.

Language is wild - you can't fence it or tell it what to do - and it's the same with people. Even under the worst excesses of Stalinism or consumerism, the human spirit will still express itself.

Writing means revealing oneself to excess.

To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess

The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.

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

Poppies bleed petals of sheer excess. You and I, this sweet battle ground.

The fact is I don't lead a simple enough inner life. I indulge in excesses, bacchanalia of the spirit. Perhaps I identify too much with everything I read and study. Someone like Dostoevsky still shatters me.

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

A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.

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.'

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.]

We must defend freedom of expression and if I had to chose, I prefer the excess of caricature over the excess of censure.

The sage avoids extremity, excess, and extravagance.