Excess Quotes - page 2

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)
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. View quote
H. Beam Piper
This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything. View quote
Jacques Delors
Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide. View quote
Cicero
We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art...what we are talking about - and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered. 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. View quote
Henry James
What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, sir, is not in Nature. View quote
Samuel Johnson
All Taliban are moderate. There are two things: extremism ["ifraat", or doing something to excess] and conservatism ["tafreet", or doing something insufficiently]. So in that sense, we are all moderates - taking the middle path. View quote
Mohammed Omar
The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots. View quote
Elbridge Gerry
I would rather have regrets of excess than regrets of denial. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, "I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right." (Tallulah Bankhead)
We cannot live without trade. A society can neither advance nor improve without excess of disposable income. This excess can only be amassed through the production of goods and services necessary or attractive to the mass. A financial system which allows this leads to inequality; one that does not leads to mass starvation. View quote
David Mamet
Everything in moderation, with occasional excess -- Ghost Rider (2002) View quote
Neil Peart
He passed the flaming bounds of place and time: The living throne, the sapphire-blaze, Where angels tremble, while they gaze, He saw; but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night. View quote
Thomas Gray
New!Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards. View quote
Neil Kinnock
There's a rule they don't teach you at the Harvard Business School. It is, if anything is worth doing, it's worth doing to excess. View quote
Edwin H. Land
Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition - and perchance to some excess - I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance. View quote
John Henry Newman
Never order food in excess of your body weight. View quote
Erma Bombeck
A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, no worthiness. (Euripides)
It is at once by way of poetry and through poetry, as with music, that the soul glimpses splendors from beyond the tomb; and when an exquisite poem brings one's eyes to the point of tears, those tears are not evidence of an excess of joy, they are witness far more to an exacerbated melancholy, a disposition of the nerves, a nature exiled among imperfect things, which would like to possess, without delay, a paradise revealed on this very same earth. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
Just as modern man consumes both too many calories and calories of no nutritional value, information workers eat data both in excess and from the wrong sources. View quote
Timothy Ferriss
In excess, most endeavors and possessions take on the characteristics of their opposite. View quote
Timothy Ferriss
As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess. View quote
Diogenes Laërtius