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There is moderation even in excess.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Why not begin operating under the idea that God has given us excess, not so we could have more, but so we could give more?
— David Platt
Winter's palette is clear and spare, restrictive enough to curb the excesses of even the most daring gardeners.
— Rosemary Verey
The Bloody-Nine opened his mouth, and shrieked out all of his bottomless love and his endless hate in one long wail.
— Joe Abercrombie
The Christmas tree, twinkling with lights, had a mountain of gifts piled up beneath it, like offerings to the great god of excess.
— Tess Gerritsen
How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!
— Mary Shelley
It is almost certain that excess in eating is the cause of almost all the diseases of the body, but its effects on the soul are even more disastrous.
— Alphonsus Liguori
Exceed not thy actions, but limit not thy mind.
— Gary Davis
Bubbles are best identified by credit excesses, not valuation excesses. And there's no bigger credit excess than in China.
— James Chanos
I like excess. And giant M&M's.
— Ira Glass
If owning frivolous articles of excess were indeed the trappings of malevolence, my home was ready to play host to the Axis powers.
— Michael Gurnow
True intellect is that which resolves issues. All else is excess intellect; it causes harm.
— Dada Bhagwan
Nothing exceeds like excess.
— Raven
In an excess of examples, the walk to globalization has additionally implied the minimization of women and young ladies. What's more that must change.
— Hillary Clinton
What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating.
— Jean Anouilh
Too much of anything could destroy you, Simon thought. Too much darkness could kill, but too much light could blind.
— Cassandra Clare
I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess.
— Tallulah Bankhead
The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.
— Walter Savage Landor
A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.
— Plato
Somehow I reached excess without ever noticing when I was passing through satisfaction.
— Ashleigh Brilliant
Diabetics are commonly obese because excess carbohydrates get stored as fat, not because they eat too much fat.
— Ankit Pandey
The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots.
— Elbridge Gerry
The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
— Sophie Swetchine
One must not permit oneself excesses, except with persons whom one wishes soon to leave.
— Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos
Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.
— Oscar Wilde
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Child, you suffer from an excess of great stupidity or great bravery. I'm not sure which.
— J.C. Daniels
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Hitler [had an] excess of imagination, which very frequently foresaw what would happen but also very often went astray.
— Alfred Jodl
Oh, my dear, how too marvelous! I've longed all my life to eat a flamingo.
— Compton Mackenzie
If music be the food of love, play on. 1 Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, 2 The appetite may sicken and so die. 3 That strain again! It
— William Shakespeare
When enough is not enough, a Hedonist is born.
— Sukant Ratnakar
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily ... is wasteful and ridiculous excess
— William Shakespeare
We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.
— Peter Kreeft
Any excess in life is a substitute for something that's missing.
— Beverly Sills
A home is a home, and excess supply leads to prices falling.
— Nouriel Roubini
The love of lucre, though sometimes carried to a ridiculous excess, a vicious excess, is the grand cause of prosperity to all States.
— Edmund Burke
Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable.
— Joseph Joubert
You can tell there's an election coming soon. People are already using the word "fundamentally" in excess.
— Benjamin Kane Ethridge
An excess of simplicity, after all, was just another form of ostentation, and pride in one's humility a sin.
— Robert Harris
Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!
— Mae West
( ... ) An amalgam of sexual excess and demonic elegance, as likely to fuck you as tear out your heart.
— Clive Barker
Global food insecurity is increasing ... the slim excess of growth in food production over population is narrowing.
— Lester R. Brown
Death defines life. I'd rather stay undefined.
— Lera Auerbach
If we have a dollar to spend on some wild excess, we shall spend it on a book, not on asparagus out of season.
— Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.
— Robert A. Heinlein
They who love in excess also hate in excess.
— Aristotle.
Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.
— Aristotle.
The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Excess of happiness and excess of sorrow, both are hazardous. Emotions require a balanced diet too.
— Chandan Sharma
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
— William Blake
The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.
— Norman Lear
Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones.
— William Penn
He'd cure himself by excess.
— David Foster Wallace
And then she knew. Her friends and neighbors were angry at her because she had overstepped, given too much, offended them by excess.
— Toni Morrison
I think you get people taking things to excess in all fields, doctors, lawyers - -it happens to all kinds of people.
— John Frusciante
The growing possibility of our destroying ourselves and the world with our own neglect and excess is tragic and very real.
— Billy Graham
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism.
— G.K. Chesterton
So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough.
— William Shakespeare
The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Everything in excess Is opposed by nature.
— Hippocrates
One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
— Joseph Addison
A woman eats to feed her pussy. Meaning: Anything we do to excess is in compensation for not getting a minimum amount of sexual gratification.
— Chuck Palahniuk
Never order food in excess of your body weight.
— Erma Bombeck
Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess.
— Jeremy Collier
In excess, most endeavors and possessions take on the characteristics of their opposite.
— Tim Ferriss
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Trichloroethane [ ... ] All my extensive testing has shown this to be the best treatment for a dangerous excess of human knowledge
— Chuck Palahniuk
Clearing away the excess whittles life down to its bare essence, revealing purity of heart, integrity of character and inspiration of purpose,
— Kathleen Ann Harper
Well," Etta said weakly, "she's always told me a good challenge builds character." "Then we'll have an excess of it," he said dryly. — Alexandra Bracken
Theirs is a civilization of deprivation; ours of finely balanced satisfaction ever teetering on the brink of excess.
— Iain M. Banks
Your body is baggage you carry through life. The more excess the baggage, the shorter the trip. -Arnold Glasow
— Brian Mills
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A life lived in equal excess is one of moderation.
— Charles Martin Hall
Excess weakens the spirits.
— Confucius
You're in a mess, and in excess.
— Billy Strayhorn
When sages commend excess, Desire is sick.
— Mason Cooley
