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

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
Christian Nestell Bovee

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.
John Updike

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

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.
David F. Houston

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

There is moderation even in excess.
Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents.
John C. Ransom

Tough times helped many commodities producers become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost-cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up.
Jim Rogers

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.
Walter Savage Landor

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

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
Charles Dickens

We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.
Norman Lear

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

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.
Bing Crosby

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating.
Jean Anouilh

When sages commend excess, Desire is sick.
Mason Cooley

When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying there is a problem with excess carbon dioxide emission, I think we ought to listen.
James Baker