Excess Quotes - Page 9

The high-handed bureaucratic excesses of the IRS are a national disgrace ... riding roughshod over the taxpayers and making a joke out of our rule of laws.

Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.

I drink to excess, I gamble to excess, but everyone knows it, so it's not a big deal.

The eye deals with excess more easily than the stomach does.

The extravagance of intellect outstrips the extravagance of desire.

Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn, perhaps) there are abysses as deep as those of love.

There is no safe dose of radiation since radiation is cumulative. Harm in the form of excess human cancer occurs at all doses of ionizing radiation, down to the lowest conceivable dose and dose rate.

That the American, by temperament, worked to excess, was true; work and whiskey were his stimulants; work was a form of vice; but he never cared much for money or power after he earned them.

What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.

Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough.

Somehow I reached excess without ever noticing when I was passing through satisfaction.

Aggressiveness is not the main trouble with the human species, but rather an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.

Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . .

The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.

Clearly, America's dysfunctional food culture must bear some of the blame for our excess pounds, but it's likely our walking-averse lifestyles contribute as well.

Resentment is, in every stage of the passion, painful, but it is not disagreeable, unless in excess; pity is always painful, yet always agreeable; vanity, on the contrary, is always pleasant, yet always disagreeable.

I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.

It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the tongues.

Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence.

I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess.

The significance and influence of just one BNP councillor is far in excess of the council powers such an elected figure can, in reality, command.

Perhaps I have lived my life to excess, but know what — if I had it to do over again, I would overdo it again.

The mystic must be steadily told,-All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us have a little algebra, instead of this trite rhetoric,-universal signs, instead of these village symbols,-and we shall both be gainers. The history of hierarchies seems to show that all religious error consisted in making the symbol too stark and solid, and was at last nothing but an excess of the organ of language.

One must not permit oneself excesses, except with persons whom one wishes soon to leave.

We live in a time of excess - excess population, excess information.