Quotes with excess

  • Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds - a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents. In 1953, excess is always a comfort, and sometimes a career.
  • Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity - it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
  • 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.

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  • Aeschylus 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.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Susan Sontag Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life - its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness - conjoin to dull our sensory faculties.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • J. Seldon 'Tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess.
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  • Samuel Johnson A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Josh Billings As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • John Stuart Mill But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal Impulses and preferences.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Bob Beauprez Careful economic research has shown public-sector workers receive a level of compensation, pension benefits, and retiree health coverage in excess of what comparable workers in the private sector enjoy. In some instances, the total premium can be 30 percent or higher.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Horace Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Plutarch Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Will Durant Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principles.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, which will itself need reforming.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Plato Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Samuel Butler For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure - tangible material prosperity in this world - is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Burton Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities and the fountain of all our diseases. As fire extinguished by an excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by an intemperate diet.
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  • Francis Bacon In charity there is no excess.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Seneca It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • John Selden It's not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess.
    John Selden
    British Jurist, Statesman (1584 - 1654)
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  • Bob Beauprez Job growth well in excess of population increase would be a very good thing if it were only that easy.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Tallulah Bankhead 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
    American actress (1902 - 1968)
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