Excess Quotes - Page 7

This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything.

The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.

We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.

I've seen disgusting excess in business, and I've seen disgusting excess in Washington. But at the same time, I've certainly learned that Washington matters and that you can't ignore it, especially when you get into telecom.

People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.

A garlic caress is stimulating. A garlic excess soporific.

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess.

There is moderation even in excess.

We must rejoice when love is great, and pardon its excess, for love is the staff of life, and life without love is life in vain.

Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.

Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.

So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough.

It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess.

In excess, most endeavors and possessions take on the characteristics of their opposite.

You go through a process of refinement and getting rid of the excesses of your early youth in terms of your excitement about what theatre can do.

Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.

The excess of the voluptuary, like the austerities of the recluse, triumphs in the suffrage of perverted reason.

We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men, and coquetry in women.

It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.

The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty.

Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.

America is a country of excess.

All is wholesome in the absence of excess.