Quotes About Excess

The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.

I hold this as a rule of life: Too much of anything is bad.

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

It is true that too much belief can be bad for your health.

If it is true that we need a degree of certainty to get by, it is also true that too much of the stuff can be lethal.

The Christmas tree, twinkling with lights, had a mountain of gifts piled up beneath it, like offerings to the great god of excess.

After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good that he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him. The moral: when you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.

I belong to those for whom the superfluous is necessary.

There are three things which, in great quantity, are bad, and, in little, very good: leaven, salt, and liberality.

They are like people who imagine that the answer to constipation is diarrhoea.

Like all other virtues, patriotism when carried to excess becomes a vice; but that does not mean that patriotism is incompatible with respect for others.

Surfeit begets insolence, when prosperity comes to a bad man.

Mick As long as there's, you know, sex and drugs, I can do without the rock and roll.

Nigel It's like, how much more black could this be and the answer is none. None more black.

A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer.

A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of delicacy, excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer.

Though We alarm them, yet it only increases their tremendous excess.

The excess skin, especially in my neck, was driving me crazy.

Luxury has been a bit of a rollercoaster for me. I would define it as something that isn't needed but improves your life.

The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle.

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

I allow myself one nice car.

I don't understand moderation. I'm not the nice guy.

I used to buy nice clothes and drive a nice car when I couldn't afford it. But I spent all my money doing it, and now I don't have to. I like nice things. I like to travel in a certain style. I like to live in a nice place.