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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
Author:
Xenophon
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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We never search for scandal, but we use it if it cries out to excess.
Author:
Peter Utley
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This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess.
Author:
Terence
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You're in a mess, and in excess.
Author:
Billy Strayhorn
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
Author:
Marquis Sade
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Tough times helped many commodities producers become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost-cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up.
Author:
Jim Rogers
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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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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.
Author:
John Ransom
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Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
Author:
Plato
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Nothing exceeds like excess.
Author:
Al Jourgensen
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There is moderation even in excess.
Author:
Benjamin Disraeli
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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
Author:
Sidonie Colette
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Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
Author:
Samuel Coleridge
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Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
Author:
Marcus Cicero
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The best things carried to excess are wrong.
Author:
Charles Churchill
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
Author:
Christian Bovee
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What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating.
Author:
Jean Anouilh
