Quotes of: Excesses Keyword

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.

James Buchan

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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

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

My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.

Camille Paglia

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

Clarence Day

The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that legal invoices are paid, no matter how excessive.

Conrad Black

Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.

Euripides

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.

Dennis Potter

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

Honore de Balzac

I try to get 11 or 12 hours of sleep a night. It sounds excessive but that's really what I need.

Heather Graham

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.

John Keats

Obituaries are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us that interesting, successful people rarely lead orderly, linear lives. I defy you to find a single obituary that begins, "Jane Doe won the Nobel Prize in large part because she was ad...

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The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in the excess of grief.

Frankenstein

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Charles Caleb Colton

The end of ourselves is the beginning of God

The 180 Degree Christian: Serving Jesus in a Culture of Excess

Spermaceti oil is valued for its high resistance to heat, and thus it is used in machinery where there is excessive heat.

Paul Watson

Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.

Karl Abraham