We never search for scandal, but we use it if it cries out to excess.

An obituary should be an exercise in contemporary history, not a funeral oration.

We never search for scandal, but we use it if it cries out to excess.

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

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.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

It's not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess.

Never order food in excess of your body weight.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

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.

This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects.

We'd dub the one that came off best into the final transcription. It gave us a chance to ad lib as much as we wanted, knowing that excess ad libbing could be sliced from the final product.

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

I've seen disgusting excess in business, and I've seen disgusting excess in Washington. But at the same time, I've certainly learned that Washington matters and that you can't ignore it, especially when you get into telecom.

One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or that any embarrassment which might arise would be from excess of material. I find this, however, far from being the case.

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

You're in a mess, and in excess.

Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.

Crime is a product of social excess.

We never search for scandal, but we use it if it cries out to excess.

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess.

Nothing exceeds like excess.

The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.

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.

Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.

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.

Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.

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.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

There is moderation even in excess.

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.