Excess Quotes

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Oscar Wilde

Nothing, Moderation, Fatal

Sure, I did a lot of things in excess. But if you look at the core, the foundation of what I pursued, what red-blooded young American male in my position wouldn't?
Charlie Sheen

Young, American, Sure

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

Change, Direction, Whether

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

Liberty, Lies, State

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

Happy, Nor, Abuse

Never order food in excess of your body weight.
Erma Bombeck

Food, Body, Order

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
William Blake

Wisdom, Road, Palace

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.
James Madison

Power, Person, Opinions

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

Great, Mind, Greatness

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

Moderation, Guide

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

Effect, Moderation, Habit

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
Charles Dickens

Sometimes, Virtues, Vices

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

Through, Become, Innocent

There is moderation even in excess.
Benjamin Disraeli

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.
John Keats

Poetry, Thoughts, Almost

Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
Honore de Balzac

Joy, Sorrow, Bear

Crime is a product of social excess.
Vladimir Lenin

Social, Crime, Product

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.
Aeschylus

Great, Justice, Wealth

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
Plutarch

Courage, Between, Lack

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

Mind, Down, Body

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
Hippocrates

Nature, Everything, Opposed

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

Truth, Demand, Scarce

When sages commend excess, Desire is sick.
Mason Cooley

Sick, Desire, Commend

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

Age, Against, Youth

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

Health, Money, Bad

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

Minds, Weak, Necessary

The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Often, Faults, Husbands

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.
Henry James

Age, Single, Regret

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

Living, Dead, Madness

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

Government, Principle, Basic

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