Quotes on Excess

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

Author: Jean Anouilh

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

Author: Honore Balzac

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

Author: Christian Bovee

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

Author: Charles Churchill

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

Author: Marcus Cicero

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

Author: Samuel Coleridge

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

Author: Sidonie Colette

There is moderation even in excess.

Author: Benjamin Disraeli

Nothing exceeds like excess.

Author: Al Jourgensen

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

Author: Plato

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

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

Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

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

Sensual excess drives out pity in man.

Author: Marquis Sade

You're in a mess, and in excess.

Author: Billy Strayhorn

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

Author: Terence

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

Author: Peter Utley

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Author: Oscar Wilde

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

Author: Xenophon