Excess Quotes

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

Fire, Through, Dangerous

Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
Marquis de Sade

Pity, Sensual, Drives

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.
Christopher Marlowe

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.
Annie Lennox

Life, Work, Great

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.
Xun Zi

Pride, Bring, Disaster

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.
Walter Savage Landor

Men, Truth, Small

We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty.
Jonathan Sacks

Best, Hope, Courage

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.
James Buchan

Business, Character, Depression

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.
Giacomo Casanova

Death, May, Last

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.
John Updike

Makes, Rest, Risk

People are rightfully upset about Wall Street abuses and excess.
Andrew Cuomo

Street, Upset, Wall

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.
Giacomo Casanova

Health, Food, Learned

Excess is success.
Roberto Cavalli

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

Wrong, Exciting, Reasons

Excess exercise tends to be counterbalanced by excess hunger, exemplified by the phrase 'working up an appetite.' A few people with extraordinary willpower can resist such hunger day after day, but for the vast majority, weight loss through exercise is a flawed option.
Andrew Weil

Through, After, Working

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.
Andrew Weil

Food, Blame, America

I use the Clarisonic electronic skin cleansing system. It's great for removing excess oil and make-up and leaves my face feeling really smooth and clean. Then I apply Avon Anew Rejuvenate Day Revitalising Cream and Creme de la Mer Eye Concentrate. I think eye cream is so important - it keeps me looking young and prevents wrinkles.
Fergie

Great, Important, Feeling

Seeing Taylor Swift live in 2013 is seeing a maestro at the top of her or anyone's game. No other pop auteur can touch her right now for emotional excess or musical reach - her punk is so punk, her disco is so disco. The red sequins on her guitar match the ones on her microphone, her shoes and 80 percent of the crowd.
Rob Sheffield

Live, Emotional, Game

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

Long, Keep, Within

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.
Carl Hiaasen

Greed, Idiot, Put

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating.
Jean Anouilh

Fun, Long, Poor

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

Evil, Corruption, Substance

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

Father, Everything, Keep

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

Life, Valuable, Consider

I love the excess of Christmas. The shopping season that begins in September, the bad pop star recordings of Christmas carols, the decorations that don't know when to come down.
Mo Rocca

Love, Christmas, Bad

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.
Anne Hathaway

Family, Strong, Put

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.
Robert Redford

Money, Mind, End

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.
Roger Goodell

Anyone, Gone, Lots

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

Drinking, Blamed

The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.
J. William Fulbright

Power, Feeling, Wrong

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