Excess Quotes

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

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

The Irish move to a very low corporation tax has generated very significant revenue growth, considerably in excess of Britain's, where a slower economy has been combined with a number of stealth taxes.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or that any embarrassment which might arise would be from excess of material. I find this, however, far from being the case.

Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.

There is moderation even in excess.

Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me.

Sensual excess drives out pity in man.

Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents.

I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the game to excess.

Nothing exceeds like excess.

Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.

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

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.

When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying there is a problem with excess carbon dioxide emission, I think we ought to listen.

People are rightfully upset about Wall Street abuses and excess.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I think independent film is very confused, because there's excess pressure in the marketplace for entertainment to pay off.

This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it's too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective - your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else.

Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.

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

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

The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.