145 Quotes About Excess

I'm too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.

Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!

An excess of hoarded wealth is the death of many.

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.

Aggressiveness is not the main trouble with the human species, but rather an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.

Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.

Crime is a product of social excess.

We will downsize the government, motivate excess employees to become entrepreneurs, and increase the pay of a lean and mean bureaucracy.

I was the first in my peer group to get pregnant. All I craved was reassurance. I needed someone to tell me that all the seemingly random symptoms I had - weird things, such as excess saliva - were normal. And I was worried because I wasn't getting any morning sickness.