Quotes About Excess

In opera, there is always too much singing.

Too much pleasure disagrees with us. Too many concords are annoying in music; too many benefits irritate us; we wish to have the wherewithal to overpay our debts.

right' i said. 'but first, we need the car. and after that, the cocaine. and then the tape recorder, for special music, and some acapulco shirts.

Why, sir, 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.

Excess is part of my nature. Dullness is a disease. I really need danger and excitement. I'm never scared of putting myself out on a limb.

It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while the hungry majority goes in need of necessities.

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

Wealth acts merely as a kind of mirror to show you human nature at its worst.

For greed, all nature is too little.

Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne And fall of many kings.

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.

All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects.

The bounty of nature is too little for the greedy person.

Sometimes nature seems more beautiful than strictly necessary.

A certain excess of animal spirits with thoughtless good-humor will often make more enemies than the most deliberate spite and ill-nature, which is on its guard, and strikes with caution and safety.

Charity, like nature, abhors a vacuum. Next to putting it in a bank, men like to squander their superfluous wealth on those to whom it is sure to be doing the least possible good.

Everything in excess Is opposed by nature.

Radite na tome da budete elokventni.Vecina njih zna samo da prica, mnogo vise nego sto treba.

What is the nature of egoism? It spends away everything in its power!

Recently I keep thinking that this isn't about the survival of a species. It's about why we're never satisfied with what we need, why we always take a bit more.

The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.

Elephants suffer from too much patience. Their exhibitions of it may seem superb,-such power and such restraint, combined, are noble,-but a quality carried to excess defeats itself.

No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink.

You can lose yourself in pleasure, 'til your body's going numb, but will it ever be enough.