Excess Quotes

Crime is a product of social excess.

The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

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.

Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed.

You're in a mess, and in excess.

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.

We never search for scandal, but we use it if it cries out to excess.

Tough times helped many commodities producers become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost-cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up.

Never order food in excess of your body weight.

In every aspect of life, including the economic dimension, we are always challenged to do the right thing. In many cases in the market system, which allows a great deal of latitude for human choice, people can get carried away to excess.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects.

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.