Excess Quotes - Page 12

• Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?

  Plato

  Greed, Democracy, Way

  Plato (1963). “The Republic”

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• The significance and influence of just one BNP councillor is far in excess of the council powers such an elected figure can, in reality, command.

  Steve Blake

  Reality, Influence, Figures

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• 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.

  John Stuart Mill

  Individuality, Individualism, Human Nature

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.197, Hackett Publishing

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• Consumerism has led us to become used to an excess and daily waste of food, to which, at times, we are no longer able to give a just value, which goes well beyond mere economic parameters. We should all remember, however, that throwing food away is like stealing from the tables of the the poor, the hungry!

  Pope Francis

  Food, Giving, Tables

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• We often equate charity with visiting the sick, taking in casseroles to those in need, or sharing our excess with those who are less fortunate. But really, true charity is much, much more. Real charity is not something you give away; it is something that you acquire and make a part of yourself. And when the virtue of charity becomes implanted in your heart, you are never the same again.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Real, Heart, Giving

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• Eating healthy nutritious food is the simple and right solution to get rid of excess body weight effortlessly and become slim and healthy forever.

  Subodh Gupta

  Simple, Body Weight, Forever

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• There are very sophisticated, very time-consuming dishes to prepare; always from scratch, and always in excess of what you could possibly need. You tend to kill your guests with kindness around here.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Kindness, Scratches, Needs

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• The whole compass of the language is tried to find sinonimies [synonyms] and circumlocutions for massacres and murder. Things never called by their common names. Massacre is sometimes called agitation, sometimes effervescence, sometimes excess sometimes too continued an exercise of revolutionary power.

  Edmund Burke

  Exercise, Names, Agitation

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• Write on your doors the saying wise and old,
  "Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere - "Be bold;
  Be not too bold!" Yet better the excess
  Than the defect; better the more than less;
  Better like Hector in the field to die,
  Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Wise, Writing, Doors

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, "Morituri Salutamus", (pp. 142-144), 1922.

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• Our tolerance of the intolerable found a low threshold as early as the late 1950s with the grotesque excesses of McCarthyism, which destroyed so many honest lives, and then with the insane nuclear arms race and confrontations.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Race, Tolerance, Insane

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Excess of trouble may, for a time, distract and overwhelm the soul. Our Lord himself seems to have experienced somewhat of this. Our prayers, perhaps, are never more acceptable, than when they are offered in broken accents, in sighs, and groans.

  Charles Simeon

  Prayer, Broken, Soul

  Charles Simeon (1838). “Claude's Essay on the Composition of a Sermon: Together with One Hundrer Skeletons, Being the Substance of Sermons Preached Before the University”, p.196

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• How many young girls there are who do not see any wrongdoing in following certain shameless styles like so many sheep. They certainly would blush if they could guess the impression they make and the feelings they evoke in those who see them. Do they not see the harm resulting from excess in certain gymnastic exercises and sports not suitable for virtuous girls? What sins are committed or provoked by conversations which are too free, by immodest shows, by dangerous reading. How lax have consciences become, how pagan morals!

  Pope Pius XII

  Girl, Sports, Reading

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• It is almost certain that excess in eating is the cause of almost all the diseases of the body, but its effects on the soul are even more disastrous.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Soul, Saint, Body

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• One must not permit oneself excesses, except with persons whom one wishes soon to leave.

  Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

  Wish, Permit, Persons

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• Enjoy the necessities of life but eschew the excesses.

  Ian Gardner

  Life, Enjoy

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

  Hippocrates

  Nature, Healthy, Littles

  Hippocrates (1950). “The Medical Works of Hippocrates: A New Translation from the Original Greek Made Especially for English Readers”

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• Excess is the common substitute for energy.

  Marianne Moore

  Energy, Common, Substitutes

  Marianne Moore, Patricia C. Willis (1986). “The complete prose of Marianne Moore”, Viking Pr

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• We are surrounded by the absurd excess of the universe. By meaningless bulk, vastness without size, power without consequence. The stubborn iteration that is present without being felt. Nothing the spirit can marry. Merely phenomenon and its physics. An endless, endless of going on. No habitat where the brain can recognize itself. No pertinence for the heart. Helpless duplication.

  Jack Gilbert

  Heart, Brain, Habitat

  Jack Gilbert (2012). “Collected Poems”, p.293, Knopf

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• The dance lives in all mankind as a necessary motor-rhythmic expression of excess energy and the joy of living.

  Curt Sachs

  Dance, Expression, Dancing

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• His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd.

  John Milton

  Brightness, Ruins, Losing

  John Milton, John Richardson Major (1853). “Milton's Paradise Lost, with notes, critical and explanatory, original and selected, by J. R. Major”, p.42

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• I love you as one should, to excess. With folly, delight and despair.

  Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse

  Love, Despair, Delight

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• I advise other companies' CEOs, don't fall into the trap where you go, 'Where's the growth? Where's the growth?' Where's the growth?' They feel a tremendous pressure to grow. Well, sometimes you can't grow. Sometimes you don't want to grow. In certain businesses, growth means you either take on bad clients, excess risk, or too much leverage.

  Jamie Dimon

  Fall, Mean, Risk

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• [I have seen] workers in whom certain morbid affections gradually arise from some particular posture of the limbs or unnatural movements of the body called for while they work. Such are the workers who all day stand or sit, stoop or are bent double, who run or ride or exercise their bodies in all sorts of [excess] ways. ... the harvest of diseases reaped by certain workers ... [from] irregular motions in unnatural postures of the body.

  Bernardino Ramazzini

  Running, Exercise, Science

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• My advice to girls: first, don't smoke - to excess; second, don't drink - to excess; third, don't marry - to excess.

  Mark Twain

  Marriage, Girl, Advice

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• Men are very apt to run into extremes, hatred to England may carry come into an excess of Confidence in France... I am heartily disposed to entertain the most favourable sentiments of our new ally and to cherish them in others to a reasonable degree; but it is a maxim founded on the universal experience of mankind, that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is bound by its interest; and no prudent statesman or politician will venture to depart from it.

  George Washington

  Running, Men, History

  George Washington, David Maydole Matteson (1936). “The Writings of George Washington: From the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”

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