Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

William Shakespeare

Allow not nature more than nature needs.

Gretchen Rubin

Don't keep excessive amounts of anything. Those glass vases that come from florists. Those ketchup packets that come with take-out food. A house with two adults probably doesn't need fifteen mismatched souvenir coffee cups.

Axl Rose

I personally don't do any hard drugs, because they get in the way of me getting to my base issues, and I'd rather get rid of the excess baggage than find a way to shove it deeper in the closet.

I don't need the fillers, additives, excessive amounts of sugars, fats, salts and other measures taken to taint the natural goodness of real food.

Bernard Tschumi

Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is moderation even in excess.

Charles Churchill

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

Timothy Noah

The war to rein in Wall Street excess is never over.

Edmund Burke

The love of lucre, though sometimes carried to a ridiculous excess, a vicious excess, is the grand cause of prosperity to all States.

Democritus

The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.

looks excessive for the right to own a loss-making, share-losing business.

On a number of occasions, military operations which involved excessive use of force and other violations, haven't necessarily been addressed,

Charles Dickens

Minds, like bodies, will fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

Charles Dickens

Mind like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

There are few finer excesses in the world than an excess of gratitude.

It amounted to an excessive waste of resources and the destruction of a community.

Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth.

Cindy Sheehan

I think their use of force was pretty excessive for someone that didn't have a permit.

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.

Hosni Mubarak

heedlessness of all values and laws and its excessive rejection of peace and challenging the world.

Manufacturers are still miserable, and output will keep falling for some time, but they can now see light at the end of the tunnel, ... They are working off their excess inventory ... and are now hopeful of stronger orders by the year-end.

We'll always need some excess capacity, just in case.

Carrie Fisher

Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me.

I thought it was an awfully big fine for what involvement I had. I thought it was an excessive fine.

Rod Stewart

That was a turning point in my career, ... We've sold in excess of 3 million (copies) in the U.S. alone.

Juvenal

An excess of hoarded wealth is the death of many.

Kate Smith

Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food.

I'd like to see it go gold (U.S. shipments in excess of 500,000 copies) and I think it will.

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.

Arthur Koestler

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

Camille Paglia

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

Alexander Hamilton

It is a singular advantage of taxes on articles of consumption that they contain in their own nature a security against excess. They prescribe their own limit, which cannot be exceeded without defeating the end purposed - that is, an extension of the revenue.