It seems that in the advanced stages of stupidity, a lack of ideas is compensated for by an excess of ideologies.
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess.
Is not the action of nature like the stretching of a bow? The high, it pulls down; the low, it lifts up; It takes from what is in excess In order to make good of what is deficient. Who can take what they have in excess and offer it to others?
An excess of reason is itself a form of madness
I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.
If we look to the south, to Iran, which cannot be "accused" of excess democratic zeal - it goes without saying that the unstable situation does not prepare the ground for a democratic development.
What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism.
Conquer with forbearance The excesses of insolence.
Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it's too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective - your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else.
My advice to girls: first, don't smoke - to excess; second, don't drink - to excess; third, don't marry - to excess.
Long-married couples balance their checkbooks as a substitute for love-making, or they refuse each other love by protesting one another's financial error or excess.
The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.
I try to stay clear of karaoke because it normally involves an excess amount of drinking.
Feeding a baby is like filling a hole with putty - you get it in and then you sort of shave off all the excess around the hole and get it back in, like you're spackling.
There may be an excess of cultivation as well as of anything else, until civilization becomes pathetic. A highly cultivated man,--all whose bones can be bent! whose heaven-born virtues are but good manners!
Excess is excrement,. . . Excrement retained in the body is a poison.
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily. . . is wasteful and ridiculous excess