Excess Quotes - page 12

My mother was French Protestant, and my father was Italian Catholic, and their union was an excess of God, guilt and sauce. (Mitch Albom)
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom... You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough. View quote
William Blake
I'm too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does. View quote
Grace Jones
Excess and deficiency are equally at fault. View quote
Confucius
In everything the middle course is the best everything in excess brings trouble. View quote
Plautus
Every excess causes a defect; every defect an excess. Every sweet hath its sour; every evil its good. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything runs to excess every good quality is noxious if unmixed. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal impulses and preferences. View quote
John Stuart Mill
It is actually a principle of modern paternalism that if you want something you should be stopped from having it[...] Most foods are harmful to some people if taken in excess, and I expect the only reason that carrots are still available without a prescription is that no one has got very excited about them, or claimed that they might cure cancer. View quote
Celia Green
Ah,' the innkeeper said. 'So you were getting ready to drink then?' 'Tiny Gods, yes,' Bast said. 'To great excess. What the hell else is there to do? View quote
Patrick Rothfuss
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)
Among those principles deemed sacred in America; among those sacred rights considered as forming the bulwark of their liberty, which the government contemplates with awful reverence, and would approach only with the most cautious circumspection, there is none of which the importance is more deeply impressed on the public mind than the liberty of the press. That this liberty is often carried to excess, that is has sometimes degenerated to licentiousness, is seen and is lamented; but the remedy has not yet been discovered. Perhaps it is an evil inseparable from the good with which it is allied; perhaps it is a shoot which cannot be stripped from the stalk without wounding vitally the plant from which it is torn. View quote
George Nicholas
The greatest artist does not have any concept Which a single piece of marble does not itself contain Within its excess, though only A hand that obeys the intellect can discover it. View quote
Michelangelo
Ah, Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess. View quote
Charles Dickens
Science, all by itself, has no moral dimension. The same poison-containing drug which cures when taken in small doses, may kill when taken in excess. View quote
Wernher von Braun
Our staggeringly pompous president is incapable of comprehending that a businessman cannot pay a worker in excess of his productivity and hope to stay solvent. View quote
Ilana Mercer
In the midst of mirth, reflect that many of your fellow creatures round the world are expiring; and that your turn will come shortly. So will you keep your life uniform and free from excess. View quote
James Burgh
Heavy, clayey soils hold more water with less nutrient-leaching. The structural aggregates of heavy soils retain nutrients but allow water to drain around them. Light soils are extremely sensitive to excess water. View quote
Ken Kern
It makes sense to describe a core competence as a complex adaptive system, located in the lower regions of the I-Space between an ordered regime in which knowledge assets get frozen into technologies and a chaotic regime in which the stability necessary for effective organizational coordination and integration remains absent. Core competences, then, have their being in a region of the I-Space sandwiched between an excess of usable structure and a total lack of it. We hypothesize that the possession of a core competence is one measure of a firm's ability to deal with complexity. View quote
Max Boisot
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess. View quote
William Shakespeare
Distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough. (William Shakespeare)
O love, be moderate, allay thy ecstasy, In measure rain thy joy, scant this excess! View quote
William Shakespeare
Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. View quote
William Shakespeare
One must do nothing in excess. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
My advice to women is First, don't smoke -- to excess Second, don't drink -- to excess Third, don't marry -- to excess. View quote
Mark Twain