Excess Quotes - Page 4

There is no excess in the world so commendable as excessive gratitude.

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

Hitler [had an] excess of imagination, which very frequently foresaw what would happen but also very often went astray.

A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer.

Sensual excess drives out pity in man.

An excess of reason is itself a form of madness

I love you as one should, to excess. With folly, delight and despair.

The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.

To me, the counterculture was always what I grew up with the hippies in the late '60s. But, however you define it, it's really the excesses of youth and it's something that everyone goes through to some extent. Or if they don't, they should do.

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.

It is a singular advantage of taxes on articles of consumption that they contain in their own nature a security against excess. They prescribe their own limit, which cannot be exceeded without defeating the end purposed - that is, an extension of the revenue.

Libertarians are believers in small government who really mean it -- no excuses, no exceptions. [For Libertarians], the excesses of government are their best recruiters.

A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.

It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.

Excess is the common substitute for energy.

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

Polygamy has an ancient history and is legal in many parts of the world. I find the rules of polygamy to be damaging and it's potentially dangerous to young girls and terrible for "excess" boys. But polyamory is supposed to be a more equal arrangement among agreeing adults.

There's a rule they don't teach you at the Harvard Business School. It is, if anything is worth doing, it's worth doing to excess.

Such excess of passion is quite out of fashion

It is an unfortunate fact that great and foolish excess can come into prices of common stocks in the aggregate. They are valued partly like bonds, based on roughly rational projections of use value in producing future cash. But they are also valued partly like Rembrandt paintings, purchased mostly because their prices have gone up, so far.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Nothing Succeeds like excess!

A rational reaction against the irrational excesses and vagaries of scepticism may, I admit, readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. To be engaged in opposing wrong affords, under the conditions of our mental constitution, but a slender guarantee for being right.

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

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.