Excess Quotes

Sensual excess drives out pity in man.

The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.

One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.

All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.

In the debate between those who believe in essentially unregulated markets and others who hold that reasonable regulation diminishes market excesses without inhibiting their basic function, the subprime situation unfortunately provides ammunition for the latter view.

Ocean acidification – the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is turning the oceans increasingly acid.

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.

I loved you more than love was allowed.