I've always followed the rule that anything worth doing is worth doing excessively.
~By Robert M. Parker, Jr. ~
Sure, I did a lot of things in excess. But if you look at the core, the foundation of what I pursued, what red-blooded young American male in my position wouldn't?
~By Charlie Sheen ~
Excessive literary production is a social offense.
~By George Eliot ~
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 ~
Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
~By Charles Dickens ~
Tough times helped many commodities producers become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost-cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up.
~By Jim Rogers ~
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
~By William Blake ~
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 ~
The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today.
~By Marty Meehan ~
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 ~
Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.
~By Christopher Marlowe ~
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
~By Plutarch ~
You're in a mess, and in excess.
~By Billy Strayhorn ~
All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects.
~By James Young Simpson ~
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 ~
There is moderation even in excess.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
In our excessive involvement in the affairs of other countries, we are not only living off our assets and denying our own people the proper enjoyment of their resources; we are also denying the world the example of a free society enjoying its freedom to the fullest.
~By J. William Fulbright ~
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 ~
Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
~By Marquis de Sade ~
Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
~By Voltaire ~
Crime is a product of social excess.
~By Vladimir Lenin ~
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 ~
I am trying to get right with God. I'm sort of making a statement about the excessiveness.
~By Lucinda Williams ~
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
~By Adam Smith ~
Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
~By James Madison ~
Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
~By Honore De Balzac ~
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 ~
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 ~
Pride and excess bring disaster for man.
~By Xun Zi ~
This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess.
~By Terence ~
Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
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 ~
One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.
~By Lew Wallace ~
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
~By Alexander Hamilton ~
One of the best lessons I learned early is that not everything in life is about you. It is about service. If you want trips and excessive gifts, then don't get into public service.
~By Sean Hannity ~
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 ~
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
~By Francis Bacon ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
~By Hippocrates ~
Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.
~By John W. Gardner ~
The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.
~By Menander ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
~By Josh Billings ~
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 ~
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits.
~By Rick Perry ~
Excessive fear is always powerless.
~By Aeschylus ~
The first thing you need to know, in order to establish some perspective and avoid panic, is that the violent government excesses we're seeing today are far from unprecedented.
~By L. Neil Smith ~
What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating.
~By Jean Anouilh ~
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
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 ~
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
~By Sidonie Gabrielle Colette ~
I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style.
~By Ian Jackson ~
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
~By William Blake ~
It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.
~By Richard Le Gallienne ~
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
~By Jane Austen ~
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 ~
Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.
~By Phaedrus ~
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 ~
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 ~
Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.
~By George Will ~
I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~
Never order food in excess of your body weight.
~By Erma Bombeck ~
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
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 ~
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 ~
The best things carried to excess are wrong.
~By Charles Churchill ~
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 ~
Stock market corrections, although painful at the time, are actually a very healthy part of the whole mechanism, because there are always speculative excesses that develop, particularly during the long bull market.
~By Ron Chernow ~
For fear of dropping the troops in the sea, the pilots tended to drop them too far inland - some of them actually in the British lines. The weapon containers often fell wide of the troops, which was another handicap that contributed to our excessive casualties.
~By Kurt Student ~
Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents.
~By John C. Ransom ~
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
~By John Henry Newman ~
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 ~
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 ~
When sages commend excess, Desire is sick.
~By Mason Cooley ~
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 the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
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 ~
Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
~By Plato ~
I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.
~By Francesca Annis ~
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 ~
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
~By Plato ~
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 ~
We never search for scandal, but we use it if it cries out to excess.
~By Peter Utley ~
My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.
~By Camille Paglia ~
We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.
~By Norman Lear ~
When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
~By Salman Rushdie ~
Nothing exceeds like excess.
~By Al Jourgensen ~
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
~By Demosthenes ~
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 ~
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
The value of the beans for oil production, as well as for human food, has become recognized so quickly and so generally during the past year that the crop has acquired a commercial standing far in excess of its previous status.
~By David F. Houston ~
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