Excess Quotes - Page 8

Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable.

Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!

You gotta take care of yourself; you cant do anything in excess.

Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess.

Apparently, on New Texas, killing a politician was not malum in se, and was mallum prohibitorum only to the extent that what happened to the politician was in excess of what he deserved.

Everyone became brave from excess of terror.

Despite the recent conviction of many that we're headed back to inflation, I think deflation remains the more likely prospect. You've just got too much excess capacity in the world.

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

The love of lucre, though sometimes carried to a ridiculous excess, a vicious excess, is the grand cause of prosperity to all States.

We cannot live without trade. A society can neither advance nor improve without excess of disposable income. This excess can only be amassed through the production of goods and services necessary or attractive to the mass. A financial system which allows this leads to inequality; one that does not leads to mass starvation.

The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.

My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.

Following the Romanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away.

Careful economic research has shown public-sector workers receive a level of compensation, pension benefits, and retiree health coverage in excess of what comparable workers in the private sector enjoy. In some instances, the total premium can be 30 percent or higher.

Life is about balance too much excess is chaos.

Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.

A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.

So why is a third of our world battling obesity and spending huge sums to burn off excess calories, while the other two-thirds yearn to get more of them?

Excess is excrement, ... Excrement retained in the body is a poison.

Make as much racket as you like people. Noise is life and an excess of noise is a sign that life is good. There will be time for us all to be quiet when we are safely dead.

Winter's palette is clear and spare, restrictive enough to curb the excesses of even the most daring gardeners.

Well: the day is a poem but too much Like one of Jeffers's, crusted with blood and barbaric omens Painful to excess, inhuman as a hawk's cry.

Our vices are the excesses of our virtues.

Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?

To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless.