Pride and excess bring disaster for man.
We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.
While pimples are not as simple as too much milk or sugar in your diet, both have a significant impact. Nutritional deficiencies as well as excesses can worsen acne.
I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.
The U.S. has been living in a situation of excesses for too long. Consumers were out spending more than their income and the country was spending more than its income, running up large current-account deficits. Now we have to tighten our belts and save more.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
When sages commend excess, Desire is sick.
The war to rein in Wall Street excess is never over.
I think we have to understand that sugar is an essential component of food; it's just that sugar in excess is an inappropriate and unhelpful diet.
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
Excessively narrow reading is unhelpful, certainly. Reading only Serious Literature is no better than reading only trash in this respect.
It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.
In principle, junk bonds are basically useful, but they are used excessively and irrationally, notably in takeovers.
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.
Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I think independent film is very confused, because there's excess pressure in the marketplace for entertainment to pay off.
The value of the beans for oil production, as well as for human food, has become recognized so quickly and so generally during the past year that the crop has acquired a commercial standing far in excess of its previous status.
In every aspect of life, including the economic dimension, we are always challenged to do the right thing. In many cases in the market system, which allows a great deal of latitude for human choice, people can get carried away to excess.
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
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.
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.
I was the first in my peer group to get pregnant. All I craved was reassurance. I needed someone to tell me that all the seemingly random symptoms I had - weird things, such as excess saliva - were normal. And I was worried because I wasn't getting any morning sickness.
Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.
Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.
In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.
Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed.
The country will also need 'new forms of social welfare' instead of its current system which is excessively centred on pensions.
We never search for scandal, but we use it if it cries out to excess.
I'm of those who believe that excesses in all matters are not a good idea, whether it's formation of bubbles, whether it's excess in the financial market, whether it's excess of inequality, it has to be watched, it has to be measured, and it has to be anticipated in terms of consequences.
My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.