Excess Quotes

Everything in excess is opposed to nature. (Hippocrates)
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage. View quote
Plutarch
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. View quote
William Blake
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness. View quote
Christopher Marlowe
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. View quote
Josh Billings
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. View quote
John Updike
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess! View quote
Charles Dickens
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow. (Honoré de Balzac)
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. View quote
James Madison
Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen a angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100 mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had. View quote
Linus Torvalds
In charity there is no excess. View quote
Francis Bacon
Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness. View quote
William Wordsworth
The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die. View quote
William Shakespeare
It's not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess. View quote
John Selden
There is moderation even in excess. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or job, then, is one that offers an expected stream of future benefit that has a value in excess of the option to continue to search for an even better alternative. View quote
Dale T. Mortensen
The best things carried to excess are wrong. (Charles Churchill (satirist))
Everything in excess To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities - his preeminence over them simply and solely in the number and in the fantastic and unnecessary character of his wants, physical, moral, aesthetic, and intellectual. Had his whole life not been a quest for the superfluous, he would never have established himself as inexpugnably as he has done in the necessary. View quote
William James
We must frankly confess, then, using our empirical common sense and ordinary practical prejudices, that in the world that actually is, the virtues of sympathy, charity, and non-resistance may be, and often have been, manifested in excess. ... You will agree to this in general, for in spite of the Gospel, in spite of Quakerism, in spite of Tolstoi, you believe in fighting fire with fire, in shooting down usurpers, locking up thieves, and freezing out vagabonds and swindlers. View quote
William James
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not. View quote
Xenophon