Quotes by Excess Do not spend in excess like one who is careless of what is good, nor be miserly; the mean is best in every case. Pythagoras excesscasesmean An excess of science will leave none of us alive. R. A. Lafferty excessalive Consumerism has led us to become used to an excess and daily waste of food, to which, at times, we are no longer able to give a just value, which goes well beyond mere economic parameters. We should all remember, however, that throwing food away is like stealing from the tables of the the poor, the hungry! Pope Francis excessfoodgiving Giving is the safety valve that releases the excess pressure of wealth. Randy Alcorn excesssafetygiving Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed. Ralph Waldo Emerson excessqualityrunning Life etches itself onto our faces as we grow older, showing our violence, excesses or kindnesses. Rembrandt excessfaceskindness There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty. Ralph Waldo Emerson excessedges Libertarians are believers in small government who really mean it -- no excuses, no exceptions. [For Libertarians], the excesses of government are their best recruiters. Richard Brookhiser excessgovernmentmean It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living. Richard Le Gallienne fineexcessworth-living The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool. Ralph Waldo Emerson excesswisdomwise The mystic must be steadily told,-All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us have a little algebra, instead of this trite rhetoric,-universal signs, instead of these village symbols,-and we shall both be gainers. The history of hierarchies seems to show that all religious error consisted in making the symbol too stark and solid, and was at last nothing but an excess of the organ of language. Ralph Waldo Emerson excesserrorsreligious We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men, and coquetry in women. Robert Adam coquetryexcessmen Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks. Robert A. Heinlein excessflavorinspirational Perhaps I have lived my life to excess, but know what — if I had it to do over again, I would overdo it again. Robert Breault excesswhat-ifrisk I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess. Robert Morgan excesspersonalityfather We reform the system. We save capitalism from its own excesses. Robert Reich capitalismexcessreform Well: the day is a poem but too much Like one of Jeffers's, crusted with blood and barbaric omens Painful to excess, inhuman as a hawk's cry. Robinson Jeffers excesspainblood They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior Romain Gary exteriorinteriorsexcess 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. Ron Chernow excesshealthylong L'amoureux qui n'oublie pas quelquefois meurt par exce' s, fatigue et tension de me moire (tel Werther). The lover who does not forget sometimes dies from excess, fatigue, and the strain of memory (like Werther). Roland Barthes excessdoememories«678910111213141516»
