Quotes on Excess
Abbesses' recesses are not for excesses! Michael R. Burch
Everything in excess is opposed to nature. Hippocrates
Prayer can never be in excess. Charles Spurgeon
There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Excess is not really something I consider a bad thing; especially when you are talking about living. Oscar De La Renta
It's all about gold. It's all about gold, gold, gold, gold! Excess! Anna Dello Russo
All is wholesome in the absence of excess. Moliere
Excess always carries its own retribution. Ouida
An excess of hoarded wealth is the death of many. Juvenal
Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses! Joseph Joubert
Anything in excess is a poison. Theodore Levitt
In charity there is no excess. Francis Bacon
It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess. Will Oldham
It's not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess. John Selden
There is moderation even in excess. Benjamin Disraeli
An excess of science will leave none of us alive. R. A. Lafferty
Excess weakens the spirits. Confucius
The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs down and prostates the mind also. Horace
She had never been a pretty crier. She sobbed the way she did everything else - with passion and excess. Jodi Picoult
Profusion gives pleasure up to a point; then we become squeamish. Mason Cooley
The excess of pleasure is pain Almeida Garrett
Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward. Yvon Chouinard
Enjoy the necessities of life but eschew the excesses. Ian Gardner
They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior Romain Gary
Excess is excrement, ... Excrement retained in the body is a poison. Ursula K Le Guin
Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization. Alphonse De Lamartine
Such excess of passion is quite out of fashion Edward Gorey
Excess makes the heart grow fonder... John Balance
I had a lot of excess skin - I just needed to have it firmed Carnie Wilson
Nothing Succeeds like excess! Anna Dello Russo
Reality is a creation of our excesses. Emile M Cioran
True charity is liable to excesses and transports. Jean Baptiste Massillon
A garlic caress is stimulating. A garlic excess soporific. Curnonsky
We live in a time of excess - excess population, excess information. Peter Greenaway
I would rather have regrets of excess than regrets of denial. Jeanette Winterson
The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess. Democritus
An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem. Gaston Bachelard
When you've tasted excess, everything else tastes bland... Nikki Sixx
Excess always carries it's own retributions. Ouida
I'm not lazy. I'm simply judicious about excess movement. Jen Lancaster
I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things. Albert Camus
The best things carried to excess are wrong. Charles Churchill
I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself. Giacomo Casanova
The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess. Menander
We reform the system. We save capitalism from its own excesses. Robert Reich
Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess. Edwin Land
I've always thought of this city as Disneyland for adults. ... There's no danger of Las Vegas expiring from an excess of good taste. Mary Jo Putney
the excess of all good things is mischievous. Lydia M Child
Life is about balance too much excess is chaos. Bill Vaughan
Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, For works may have more with than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood. Alexander Pope
Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . . Aristotle
Allow not nature more than nature needs. William Shakespeare
The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness. Friedrich Nietzsche
The idea is there locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone. Michelangelo
The extravagance of intellect outstrips the extravagance of desire. Mason Cooley
The eye deals with excess more easily than the stomach does. Mason Cooley
Austerity causes constipation; excess, diarrhea. Mason Cooley
An excess of law inescapably weakens the rule of law. Laurence Tribe
There is an excess both in happiness and misery above our power of sensation. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The ass bears the load, but not the overload. Miguel De Cervantes
The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself. Sophie Swetchine
The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. Tallulah Bankhead
Life etches itself onto our faces as we grow older, showing our violence, excesses or kindnesses. Rembrandt
All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects. James Young
The sage avoids extremity, excess, and extravagance. Laozi
Who has excess and supplies the world? Only the one who follows the Way. Laozi
One must not permit oneself excesses, except with persons whom one wishes soon to leave. Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Excess is the common substitute for energy. Marianne Moore
I love the excesses of beauty, there is never enough sunlight in the world I will live in, never enough room for love. Eric Gamalinda