Excess quotes
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What we suffer from today is an excess of education.
-- Adolf Hitler -
I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.
-- Albert Camus -
It is a singular advantage of taxes on articles of consumption that they contain in their own nature a security against excess. They prescribe their own limit, which cannot be exceeded without defeating the end purposed - that is, an extension of the revenue.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
I'm a conservative because I believe we're here on this earth to do a little more than crawl through life, comfortable in the cradle of government excess and oblivious to the duties required to keep this republic standing.
-- Allen West -
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The excess of pleasure is pain
-- Almeida Garrett -
Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
There is a growing body of evidence that radiation in excess of what the government says are the minimum amounts we should be exposed to are actually good for you and reduce cases of cancer.
-- Ann Coulter -
Nothing Succeeds like excess!
-- Anna Dello Russo -
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It's all about gold. It's all about gold, gold, gold, gold! Excess!
-- Anna Dello Russo -
Loners, if you catch them, are well worth the trouble. Not dulled by excess human contact, nor blasé or focused on your crotch while jabbering about themselves, loners are curious, vigilant, full of surprises. They do not cling. Separate wherever they go, awake or asleep, they shimmer with the iridescence of hidden things seldom seen.
-- Anneli Rufus -
Success is not a process of accumulating wealth, building mass relationship or collecting things in excess, but developing, excelling, fostering and growing the happiness for self and others without recess to treat it as the life's progress.
-- Anuj -
Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.
-- Aristotle -
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Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . .
-- Aristotle -
The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.
-- Aristotle -
We must rejoice when love is great, and pardon its excess, for love is the staff of life, and life without love is life in vain.
-- Arthur Lynch -
In the debate between those who believe in essentially unregulated markets and others who hold that reasonable regulation diminishes market excesses without inhibiting their basic function, the subprime situation unfortunately provides ammunition for the latter view.
-- Barney Frank -
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I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.
-- Bernard Berenson -
Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.
-- Bernard Tschumi -
Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice.
-- Beverly Sills -
Life is about balance too much excess is chaos.
-- Bill Vaughan -
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The growing possibility of our destroying ourselves and the world with our own neglect and excess is tragic and very real.
-- Billy Graham -
Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
-- Blaise Pascal -
Careful economic research has shown public-sector workers receive a level of compensation, pension benefits, and retiree health coverage in excess of what comparable workers in the private sector enjoy. In some instances, the total premium can be 30 percent or higher.
-- Bob Beauprez -
Following the Romanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away.
-- Calvin Trillin -
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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 -
I had a lot of excess skin - I just needed to have it firmed
-- Carnie Wilson -
Trimming consists of clipping off little bits here and there from those observations which differ most in excess from the mean, and in sticking them onto those which are too small; a species of 'equitable adjustment,' as a radical would term it, which cannot be admitted in science.
-- Charles Babbage -
The best things carried to excess are wrong.
-- Charles Churchill -
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Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
-- Charles Dickens -
Prayer can never be in excess.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
The first half of fiscal 2006 has been exceptional for Cochlear. Importantly, Cochlear capitalized on a number of opportunities in this half with worldwide market share estimated to be in excess of 70%.
-- Chris Roberts -
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
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Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.
-- Christopher Marlowe -
A garlic caress is stimulating. A garlic excess soporific.
-- Curnonsky -
Rectitude carried to excess hardens into stiffness; benevolence indulged beyond measure sinks into weakness.
-- Date Masamune -
The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.
-- David Korten -
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The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
-- Democritus -
People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.
-- Dennis Potter -
Such excess of passion is quite out of fashion
-- Edward Gorey -
Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.
-- Edwin Land -
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There's a rule they don't teach you at Harvard Business School. It is: If anything is worth doing, it's worth doing to excess.
-- Edwin Land -
Reality is a creation of our excesses.
-- Emile M. Cioran -
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.
-- Esther Dyson -
The fact is I don't lead a simple enough inner life. I indulge in excesses, bacchanalia of the spirit. Perhaps I identify too much with everything I read and study. Someone like Dostoevsky still shatters me.
-- Etty Hillesum -
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There is a kind of love, the excess of which forbids jealousy.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Excess is part of my nature. Dullness is a disease. I really need danger and excitement. I'm never scared of putting myself out on a limb.
-- Freddie Mercury -
The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
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It's my personal opinion, and I'm not espousing it to anybody else, I think your immune system and how healthy you are determines how you react to any excess of any kind.
-- George Hamilton -
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 -
I'm too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.
-- Grace Jones -
If you're going to dedicate your career to ranting about the excesses of American capitalism, you probably shouldn't weigh 450 pounds.
-- Greg Giraldo -
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Apparently, on New Texas, killing a politician was not malum in se, and was mallum prohibitorum only to the extent that what happened to the politician was in excess of what he deserved.
-- H. Beam Piper -
What makes me so certain that the natural human lifespan is far in excess of the actual one is this. Among all my autopsies (and I have performed over 1000), I have never seen a person who died of old age. In fact, I do not think that anyone has ever died of old age yet. We invariably die because one vital part has worn out too early in proportion to the rest of the body.
-- Hans Selye -
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.
-- Henry Adams -
Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
-- Hippocrates -
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
-- Honore de Balzac -
The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we had been endowed with.
-- Horace -
The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs down and prostates the mind also.
-- Horace -
One should never regret one's excesses, only one's failures of nerve.
-- Iain Banks -
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Enjoy the necessities of life but eschew the excesses.
-- Ian Gardner -
A great deal more failure is the result of an excess of caution than of bold experimentation with new ideas. The frontiers of the Kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution.
-- J. Oswald Sanders -
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 -
This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything.
-- Jacques Delors -
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Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.
-- James A. Baldwin -
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.
-- James Baker -
Bubbles are best identified by credit excesses, not valuation excesses. And there's no bigger credit excess than in China.
-- James Chanos -
All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects.
-- James Young -
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Poppies bleed petals of sheer excess. You and I, this sweet battle ground.
-- Janet Fitch -
Language is wild - you can't fence it or tell it what to do - and it's the same with people. Even under the worst excesses of Stalinism or consumerism, the human spirit will still express itself.
-- Jay Griffiths -
True charity is liable to excesses and transports.
-- Jean Baptiste Massillon -
Conjuring is a profession in which no one errs through excess of modesty.
-- Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin -
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I love you as one should, to excess. With folly, delight and despair.
-- Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse -
I'm not lazy. I'm simply judicious about excess movement.
-- Jen Lancaster -
Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess.
-- Jeremy Collier -
I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate--and volatile--I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry. I shall be rampant.
-- Joanne Harris -
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Excess makes the heart grow fonder...
-- John Balance -
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.
-- John Crowe Ransom -
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.
-- John Gofman -
The fact that many people overindulge, and lose themselves in excess, and make fools of themselves and act like idiots, is no reason for me to do these things. The reason for me to do these things is that I, too, am an idiot.
-- John S. Hall -
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It's not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess.
-- John Selden -
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 -
You gotta take care of yourself; you cant do anything in excess.
-- Jorge Posada -
One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
-- Joseph Addison -
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Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!
-- Joseph Joubert -
Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable.
-- Joseph Joubert -
An excess of hoarded wealth is the death of many.
-- Juvenal -
What are all the orgies of Bacchus when compared to the intoxication of someone who completely surrenders to continence!
-- Karl Kraus -
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An excess of reason is itself a form of madness
-- Kim Stanley -
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.
-- Lee R. Raymond -
Have you ever wanted something so much that you would do anything to have it - even knowing that it was bad for you?" "Of course," Adam replied. "All truly enjoyable things in life are invariably bad for you - and they are even better when done to excess.
-- Lisa Kleypas -
The greatest factors making for communism, socialism or anarchy among a free people are the excesses of capital. The talk of the agitator does not advance socialism one step. The great captains of industry and finance... are the chief makers of socialism.
-- Louis D. Brandeis -
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the excess of all good things is mischievous.
-- Lydia M. Child -
The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today.
-- Marty Meehan -
I've always thought of this city as Disneyland for adults. ... There's no danger of Las Vegas expiring from an excess of good taste.
-- Mary Jo Putney -
The charitable say in effect, 'I seem to have more than I need and you seem to have less than you need. I would like to share my excess with you.' Fine, if my excess is tangible, money or goods, and fine if not, for I learned that to be charitable with gestures and words can bring enormous joy and repair injured feelings.
-- Maya Angelou -
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Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number.
-- Michael Pare -
The idea is there locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone.
-- Michelangelo -
All Taleban are moderate. There are two things: extremism ["ifraat", or doing something to excess] and conservatism ["tafreet", or doing something insufficiently]. So in that sense, we are all moderates - taking the middle path.
-- Mohammed Omar -
High self esteem people can surely be knocked down by an excess of troubles, but they are quickerto pick themselves up again.
-- Nathaniel Branden -
