Quotes about excess
excess hope million net relief somewhere
It would be our hope to net somewhere in excess of $1 million to give to the relief fund.
excess leads palace road until
The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom... for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough. William Blake
excess trouble devotion
Aggressiveness is not the main trouble with the human species, but rather an excess capacity for fanatical devotion. Arthur Koestler
excess wealth
An excess of hoarded wealth is the death of many. Juvenal
excessive people realizing submit
Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food. Kate Smith
excess rein war
The war to rein in Wall Street excess is never over. Timothy Noah
excess bitter sweetest
The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess. Democritus
excessive generally health noise ordinance public safety
The ordinance generally prohibits unreasonable or excessive noise that could be detrimental to life, health, or safety as well as disturbance of the public peace.
excess fair market value
We feel this is in excess of what the fair market value is,
excess joy sorrow
Excess of sorrow laughs, excess of joy weeps.
excessive
Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship. P. J. O'Rourke
excess meat
Excess in all other Things whatever, as well as in Meat and Drink, is also to be avoided. Benjamin Franklin
excess fun
What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating Jean Anouilh
excess taxation limits
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
excess spirit
Excess weakens the spirits. Confucius
excess disappear misers
I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things. Albert Camus
excess causes bears
The immediate cause of the increase of population is the excess of the births above deaths; and the rate of increase, or the period of doubling, depends upon the proportion which the excess of the births above the deaths bears to the population. Thomas Malthus
excess interiors exterior
They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior Romain Gary
excess brightness ruins
His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd. John Milton
excess trouble middle
In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble. Plautus
excess good-things mischievous
the excess of all good things is mischievous. Lydia M. Child
excess extreme material pleasure pleasures progress prosperity rather safest sharp test virtuous
For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure --tangible material prosperity in this world --is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism. Samuel Butler
excess
Everything in excess is opposed to nature. Hippocrates
excess praise disgusting
For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended. Euripides
excess charity
In charity there is no excess. Francis Bacon
excess admirable overreaching
Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses. George Will
excess fall mere state
Minds, like bodies, will fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. Charles Dickens
excess fall mere mind state
Mind like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
excess falling hopeful inventory light orders output stronger
Manufacturers are still miserable, and output will keep falling for some time, but they can now see light at the end of the tunnel, ... They are working off their excess inventory ... and are now hopeful of stronger orders by the year-end.
excess
We'll always need some excess capacity, just in case.
excess reason exciting
Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me. Carrie Fisher
excess million point sold turning
That was a turning point in my career, ... We've sold in excess of 3 million (copies) in the U.S. alone. Rod Stewart
excess size normal
The obese is in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is larger than large. He no longer makes sense in some distinctive opposition, but in his excess, his redundancy. Jean Baudrillard