In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.
~By Edgar Allan Poe ~
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.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~
Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
~By Charles Dickens ~
Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
~By Marquis de Sade ~
Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
~By Horace ~
After an unremitting and severe labour of two days, we returned to our old encampment with the loss of some of my horses, and my men excessively fatigued.
~By William Henry Ashley ~
I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.
~By Francesca Annis ~
I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of Congress and the administration, with their impertinent and indecent searching out of the private lives and the past political beliefs of individuals.
~By Wendell Willkie ~
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.
~By James Baldwin ~
Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed.
~By Benjamin Graham ~
I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.
~By Henry James ~
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
~By Plato ~
Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
~By Hippocrates ~
Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
~By Plato ~
What was a problem was the excessive amount of media attention to the appointment of the first woman and everything she did. Everywhere that Sandra went, the press was sure to go. And that got tiresome; it was stressful.
~By Sandra Day O'Connor ~
All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects.
~By James Young Simpson ~
Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.
~By Catherine Helen Spence ~
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
~By William Blake ~
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.
~By James Baker ~
To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.
~By Roland Barthes ~
Skyrocketing insurance premiums are debilitating our Nation's health care delivery system and liability insurers are either leaving the market or raising rates to excessive levels.
~By Jim Ryun ~
I regret and suffer those losses, but it's God's will. He will pardon me if I committed excesses, but I don't think I did.
~By Augusto Pinochet ~
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
No one will deny that the excessive use of alcohol and alcoholic beverages would do more than any other single factor to make impossible a total war effort.
~By William Lyon Mackenzie King ~
We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
~By J. B. Priestley ~
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
~By Adam Smith ~
Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.
~By William James ~
We never search for scandal, but we use it if it cries out to excess.
~By Peter Utley ~
I thought that if you come across as a freak, there will be some kind of distance. Maybe the distance became excessive. I realized that people were afraid of me without knowing me.
~By Thomas Kretschmann ~
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
~By Plutarch ~
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.
~By J. William Fulbright ~
The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today.
~By Marty Meehan ~
Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.
~By Phaedrus ~
Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
~By Honore De Balzac ~
Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
~By Plato ~
When sages commend excess, Desire is sick.
~By Mason Cooley ~
Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I think independent film is very confused, because there's excess pressure in the marketplace for entertainment to pay off.
~By Robert Redford ~
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.
~By Esther Dyson ~
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
~By William Blake ~
And it was back in the mid-1980s, and as I point out in a piece, that was when we are spending about eight percent of our gross domestic product on health care. And even then, we had the impression that so much of the excessive, aggressive medical treatment that took place at the end of life was not only unnecessary but it was cruel.
~By Richard Dooling ~
But we had - I think if you look at law enforcement 10 years ago, if you look at the challenges, the FBI was focused excessively on what was happening in the United States.
~By Robert Mueller ~
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
~By Xenophon ~
We'd dub the one that came off best into the final transcription. It gave us a chance to ad lib as much as we wanted, knowing that excess ad libbing could be sliced from the final product.
~By Bing Crosby ~
Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits.
~By Rick Perry ~
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
~By Jane Austen ~
From a viable economy to the full funding of Headstart, from a clean environment to true equality for women, from a strong military to a commitment to racial brotherhood, from schools that are honored to streets free of excessive violence.
~By Paul Tsongas ~
Nothing exceeds like excess.
~By Al Jourgensen ~
A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.
~By Clarence Day ~
The best things carried to excess are wrong.
~By Charles Churchill ~
It's not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess.
~By John Selden ~
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
~By Alexander Hamilton ~
One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.
~By Lew Wallace ~
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.
~By Lee R. Raymond ~
It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.
~By Theodore Parker ~
Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.
~By Walter Savage Landor ~
People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.
~By Dennis Potter ~
I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
~By George Eliot ~
This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything.
~By Jacques Delors ~
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.
~By John McCarthy ~
The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us.
~By Josiah Warren ~
The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
~By Alexis de Tocqueville ~
This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess.
~By Terence ~
We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.
~By Norman Lear ~
Pride and excess bring disaster for man.
~By Xun Zi ~
Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.
~By Neil Kinnock ~
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.
~By Menander ~
Such lifestyle factors such as cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, little physical activity and low dietary calcium intake are risk factors for osteoporosis as well as for many other non-communicable diseases.
~By Gro Harlem Brundtland ~
Rock and Roll has certainly tried to take its toll on me. I'd rather not talk about my past excesses here, although some hardcore rockers might argue that those excesses were responsible for some great records, but I know which side I came out on.
~By Tony Visconti ~
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.
~By Christopher Marlowe ~
Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course, the intention of the majority party not to allow that to be discussed.
~By Barney Frank ~
It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.
~By Paul Wellstone ~
The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
~By John Maynard Keynes ~
I am trying to get right with God. I'm sort of making a statement about the excessiveness.
~By Lucinda Williams ~
We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.
~By Will Durant ~
One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or that any embarrassment which might arise would be from excess of material. I find this, however, far from being the case.
~By James Payn ~
Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
~By Voltaire ~
The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.
~By David Korten ~
Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end there is no time to discuss the most important problems.
~By Fredrik Bajer ~
Crime is a product of social excess.
~By Vladimir Lenin ~
If the United States is to protect itself from the economic and the political threats created by this excessive dependence, we must reduce our reliance on foreign energy sources and on foreign oil as quickly and as efficiently as possible.
~By John Shadegg ~
Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food.
~By Kate Smith ~
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.
~By John Updike ~
The new fashion is to talk about the most private parts of your life; other fashion is to repent of your excesses and to criticize the drugs that made you happy in the other times.
~By Mick Jagger ~
It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.
~By Richard Le Gallienne ~
Never order food in excess of your body weight.
~By Erma Bombeck ~
Excessive fear is always powerless.
~By Aeschylus ~
My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.
~By Camille Paglia ~
Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
~By Will Durant ~
Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.
~By George Will ~
The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
~By Plato ~
The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment.
~By William J. Brennan ~
For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.
~By Aeschylus ~
I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.
~By Robert Morgan ~
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