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Undergraduate life on college campuses tends in the direction of neopagan excess.
In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.
I'm too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.
Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.
I never smoke to excess - that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.
What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.
I've always followed the rule that anything worth doing is worth doing excessively.
Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough.
'Tis not the eating, nor 'tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess.
Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.
Following the Romanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away.
One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
I drink to excess, I gamble to excess, but everyone knows it, so it's not a big deal.
They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior
African-Americans have rarely been the beneficiaries of Presidential rhetorical excess.
Somehow I reached excess without ever noticing when I was passing through satisfaction.
We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . .
In excess, most endeavors and possessions take on the characteristics of their opposite.
One must not permit oneself excesses, except with persons whom one wishes soon to leave.
Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness.
Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess.
I try to stay clear of karaoke because it normally involves an excess amount of drinking.
Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.
I guess anything in excess is no good for you, even things that are supposed to be healthy.
We do not get ice-cream every where, and so, when we do, we are apt to dissipate to excess.
I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.
Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity.
Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.
My conscience is really active. So I feel bad about spending excess amount of money on things.
Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.
We've led pretty wholesome lives. We haven't lived life to excess like so many groups have done.
A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.
Life etches itself onto our faces as we grow older, showing our violence, excesses or kindnesses.
The beauty of service-type businesses is that if they're well run, you have huge excess cash flow.
The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs down and prostates the mind also.
I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style.
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
Excess is not really something I consider a bad thing; especially when you are talking about living.
Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect.
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.
Job growth well in excess of population increase would be a very good thing if it were only that easy.
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.
Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward.
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything.
My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.