Quotes about Excess

Excess of love, did ye say? There was no excess, there was defect. She loved her son too little, not too much. If she had loved him more there'd be no difficulty.

Soft people who frequently complain about the smallest annoyances, who give in to laziness and excess, who expect others to work so that they can rest, who collapse into passive entertainment instead of active exercise — these are souls custom-made to become all but irrelevant in kingdom warfare. They are no threat to anyone — least of all to Satan.

for there is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.

To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

There is nothing more sickening than talking about poverty over a fancy dinner.

When we read more books, look at more pictures, listen to more music, than we can possibly absorb the result of such gluttony is not a cultured mind but a consuming one; what it reads, looks at, listens to, is immediately forgotten, leaving no more traces behind it than yesterday's newspaper.

For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended.

We should travel light and live simply. Our enemy is not possessions but excess.

There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty.

Tutors are usually shaggy, ill-groomed junior dons who smoke and drink to excess and never leave their rooms except for illicit sexual liaisons or to replenish their stocks of tobacco and spirits. A