Excess Quotes - page 11

You must be rich and poor with discretion. A nobleman who squanders his property does not display a noble spirit, while if he hoards his wealth to excess it will bring dishonour. (Wolfram von Eschenbach)
It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent but there is talent in the tongues. View quote
V. S. Pritchett
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. View quote
Sean Bean
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess. View quote
Seneca
In our post-modern, how ever we call them, societies we are obliged to enjoy. Enjoyment becomes a kind or a weird perverted duty. The paradox of Coke is that you are thirsty - you drink it but, as everyone knows the more you drink it the more thirsty you get. A desire is never simply the desire for certain thing. It's always also a desire for desire itself. A desire to continue to desire. Perhaps the ultimate horror of a desire is to be fully filled-in, met - so that I desire no longer. The ultimate melancholic experience is the experience of a loss of desire itself. It's not that in some return to a previous era of natural consummation where we got rid of this excess and were only consuming for actual needs like you were thirsty, you drank water, and so on. We cannot return to that. The excess is with us forever. So, let's have a drink of Coke. View quote
Slavoj Žižek
Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings. View quote
Joseph Addison
All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad. View quote
William Penn
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. View quote
Allen West (politician)
Undue emphasis on conservation is as great a danger to fire power as is an excess expenditure of ammunition. View quote
S.L.A. Marshall
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. View quote
James Baker
Man alone consumes more flesh than all the other animals together devour; he is, then, the greatest destroyer; and this more from custom than necessity. Instead of using with moderation the blessings which are offered him, instead of disposing of them with equity, instead of increasing them in proportion as he destroys, the rich man places all his glory in consuming, in one day, at his table, as much as would be necessary to support many families: he equally abuses both animals and his fellow-creatures, some of whom remain starving and languishing in misery, and labour only to satisfy his immoderate appetite, and more insatiable vanity, and who, by destroying others through wantonness, destroys himself by excess. Nevertheless, man, like some other animals, might live on vegetables. (Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon)
Whenever we have excess, giving should be our natural response. It should be the automatic decision, the obvious thing to do in light of Scripture and human need. View quote
Randy Alcorn
Pornography is art, sometimes harmonious, sometimes dissonant. Its glut and glitter are a Babylonian excess. View quote
Camille Paglia
Excess always carries its own retribution. View quote
Ouida
Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Intellectual over-indulgence is the most gratuitous and disgraceful form which excess can take, nor is there any the consequences of which are more disastrous. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
There is no excess in the world so commendable as excessive gratitude. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
The Book of Boz is neither a novel nor a poem nor a tale. Even less is it a drama or an essay. It is nothing except the style that inspires it and haunts it, to excess. No points of reference here. No beacon. You sail wherever the wind blows. Stories are woven, end, are reborn, with the flow, before a storm comes up to carry us further away, to the threshold of a new vision. For, that is The Book of Boz : a work outside of norms, indefinable, created by a wanderer for other wanderers. View quote
Julien Friedler
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. View quote
Jonathan Sacks
Nothing is more true than that excess of every kind is followed by reaction; a fact which should be pondered by reformer and reactionary alike. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Norman Mailer died last year at the age of 84 years old. For the last 60 years of this man's life, he drank to excess every day. Uh, he was married six times. He smoked pot. He stabbed his second wife. And I've never read one of his books, but I gotta tell you I'm a huge fan. (Ron White)
Excess is success. View quote
Roberto Cavalli
The passions are the humors of the mind, and the least excess sickens our judgment. If the disease spreads to the mouth, your reputation will be in danger. View quote
Baltasar Gracián
As for the passions and studies of the mind: avoid envy; anxious fears; anger fretting inwards; subtle and knotty inquisitions; joys and exhilarations in excess; sadness not communicated. Entertain hopes; mirth rather than joy; variety of delights, rather than surfeit of them; wonder and admiration, and therefore novelties; studies that fill the mind with splendid and illustrious objects, as histories, fables, and contemplations of nature. View quote
Francis Bacon
The desire for power in excess caused angels to fall the desire for knowledge in excess caused man to fall but in charity is no excess, neither can man or angels come in danger by it. View quote
Francis Bacon