Excess Quotes
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.
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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
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Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency. . .
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Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.
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When couples have children in excess, let abortion be procured before sense and life have begun; what may or may not be lawfully done in these cases depends on the question of life and sensation.
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Enjoy the necessities of life but eschew the excesses.
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I like excess. And giant M&M's.
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Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward. Rather, returning to a simpler way allows us to regain our dignity, puts us in touch with the land, and makes us value human contact again.
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Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues.
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The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.
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Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.
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India's trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports.
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O Allah do not give me in excess lest I may be disobedient.
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It is such a great fault to talk too much that, in business and conversation, if what is good is also brief, it is doubly good, and one gains by brevity what one often loses by an excess of words.
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Rectitude carried to excess hardens into stiffness; benevolence indulged beyond measure sinks into weakness.
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Moral virtue is ... a mean between two vices, that of excess and that of defect, and ... it is no small task to hit the mean in each case, as it is not, for example, any chance comer, but only the geometer, who can find the center of a given circle.
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He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors, that peacocks were heralds of death, that macaws were simply decorative annoyances, that rabbits fomented greed, that monkeys carried the fever of lust, and that roosters were damned because they had been complicit in the three denials of Christ.
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Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice.
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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.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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There are, then, three states of mind ... two vices − that of excess, and that of defect; and one virtue − the mean; and all these are in a certain sense opposed to one another; for the extremes are not only opposed to the mean, but also to one another; and the mean is opposed to the extremes.
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What we suffer from today is an excess of education.
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Allow not nature more than nature needs.
