Excess Quotes - Page 5

I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.

We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.

We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.

All Taliban are moderate. There are two things: extremism ['ifraat,' or doing something to excess] and conservatism ['tafreet,' or doing something insufficiently]. So in that sense, we are all moderates - taking the middle path.

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.

What are all the orgies of Bacchus when compared to the intoxication of someone who completely surrenders to continence!

But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal Impulses and preferences.

The United States census records from 1850 to 1940, and all available Church records, uniformly show a preponderance of males in Utha, and in the Church. Indeed, the excess in Utah has usually been larger than for the whole United State... there was no surplus of women.

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess.

Excess weakens the spirits.

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

Poor human nature cannot bear such strains as heavenly triumphs bring to it; there must come a reaction. Excess of joy or excitement must be paid for by subsequent depressions. While the trial lasts, the strength is equal to the emergency; but when it is over, natural weakness claims the right to show itself.

The growing possibility of our destroying ourselves and the world with our own neglect and excess is tragic and very real.

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

Allow not nature more than nature needs.

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.

The eye that gazes upon the sun sees not the orb it looks upon, confounded by the excess of its brightness.

Excess always carries its own retribution.

Everything in moderation, with occasional excess.

The ass bears the load, but not the overload.

Austerity causes constipation; excess, diarrhea.

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

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