Excess Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

When sages commend excess, Desire is sick.

It's not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess.

Sure, I did a lot of things in excess. But if you look at the core, the foundation of what I pursued, what red-blooded young American male in my position wouldn't?

I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things that my family put up with. And there's something wildy decadent about the young-star lifestyle, and I just don't really see the point.

Excess is success.

There are lots of businesses that are well in excess of $9 billion that have gone into bankruptcy, that have been mismanaged. And that has not served anyone very well.

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

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

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

I was the first in my peer group to get pregnant. All I craved was reassurance. I needed someone to tell me that all the seemingly random symptoms I had - weird things, such as excess saliva - were normal. And I was worried because I wasn't getting any morning sickness.