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The excess of pleasure is pain — Almeida Garrett

Don't let the excess of demand make you loose your command and get you further from what you've planned. — Ana Claudia Antunes

Winter's palette is clear and spare, restrictive enough to curb the excesses of even the most daring gardeners. — Rosemary Verey

To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless. — Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste

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

There is a kind of love, the excess of which forbids jealousy. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The eye that gazes upon the sun sees not the orb it looks upon, confounded by the excess of its brightness. — Pietro Metastasio

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

I thought of Dante. His hells were the excess of our desires and, in the deepest circles, the pain of our victims. — C.D. Reiss

The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. — Josh Billings

Undergraduate life on college campuses tends in the direction of neopagan excess. — Stanley Hauerwas

Giving is the safety valve that releases the excess pressure of wealth. — Randy Alcorn

Excess of grief, like excess of joy is a violent thing which lasts but a short time. The heart of man cannot remain long in one extremity. — Victor Hugo

We will downsize the government, motivate excess employees to become entrepreneurs, and increase the pay of a lean and mean bureaucracy. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

An excess of the desire to appear grown up is one of the defining characteristics of adolescence. — Michael Chabon

All is wholesome in the absence of excess. — Moliere

Our vices are the excesses of our virtues. — Pleasant Rowland

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

Because in one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it was The pathway to wisdom lies through excess — Jack Kerouac

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

The dance lives in all mankind as a necessary motor-rhythmic expression of excess energy and the joy of living. — Curt Sachs

Stupidity is the result of a complete absence of imagination, silliness of its excess — Martin Boyd

I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. — Tallulah Bankhead

We must rejoice when love is great, and pardon its excess, for love is the staff of life, and life without love is life in vain. — Arthur Lynch

The path of excess leads to the palace of wisdom, he said, and turned for the door. — Jim Butcher

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest - but suffer from a constant strain. — Henry David Thoreau

You are dehydrated," I said. "The result of alcohol taken in excess. But that is the only way to take it. It is the only way to do a man any good. — Robert Penn Warren

Do not spend in excess like one who is careless of what is good, nor be miserly; the mean is best in every case. — Pythagoras

In life I've rung all changes through,
Run every pleasure down,
'Midst each excess of folly too,
And lived with half the town. — Anthony Trollope

When he felt as if he was growing new body parts - a second heart, a second brain - to accommodate this excess of feeling, the wonder of his life. He — Hanya Yanagihara

How necessary it is at all times to watch against the attempted encroachment of power, and to prevent its running to excess. — Thomas Paine

To quietly work away at disposing of your own excess is actually the best way of dealing with a family that doesn't tidy. — Marie Kondo

Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem. — Gaston Bachelard

Socrates learned to his cost, the true nature of democracy is to encourage corruption and excess in all its forms. But the — Philip Kerr

God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent. — Henry Ward Beecher

The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever. — Mignon McLaughlin

I can't think of a time in the history of man when food was in excess. We're dealing with the same old problems we've dealt with for 60,000 years. — Homaro Cantu

Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition. — Seneca The Younger

An excess of law inescapably weakens the rule of law. — Laurence Tribe

We must defend freedom of expression and if I had to chose, I prefer the excess of caricature over the excess of censure. — Nicolas Sarkozy

The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in the excess of grief. — Mary Shelley

Poetry glories in excess. When it's not extolling the virtues of austerity. — Jacqueline Carey

The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Whether it be prayer or praise, whether it be work or suffering, the genuine salt of humility cannot be used in excess. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number. — Michael Pare

I like to push myself to achieve a certain quality, eliminate the excess detail. I always want a high degree of purity. — Elsa Peretti

The extravagance of intellect outstrips the extravagance of desire. — Mason Cooley

For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended. — Euripides

The road to wisdom is paved with excess.
The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange. — Walt Whitman

An excess of hoarded wealth is the death of many. — Juvenal

There is a certain sort of excess that is interesting, don't you think? And America is, of course, the most excessive place. — Ahmet Ertegun

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later. — Charles Caleb Colton

Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues — Aristotle.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight. — Aeschylus

The universe was playing with loaded dice, which insured an excess of cowards in our ranks. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity. — Alfred North Whitehead

I gave myself no boundaries. If I wanted to sleep with a boy, I did. If I wanted to try a drug, I did. If I wanted to drink to the point of excess. — Fisher Amelie

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

There is no excess of goodness. You cannot go too far in the right direction. — C.S. Lewis

Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable. — Joseph Joubert

Global food insecurity is increasing ... the slim excess of growth in food production over population is narrowing. — Lester R. Brown

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

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

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

Theirs is a civilization of deprivation; ours of finely balanced satisfaction ever teetering on the brink of excess. — Iain M. Banks

One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding. — Joseph Addison

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

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

Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks. — Robert A. Heinlein

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

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. — William Blake

We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition. — Norman Lear

What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism. — G.K. Chesterton

In one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it was "The pathway to wisdom lies through excess" (p. 113) — Jack Kerouac

America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death. — John Piper

Most of the seven billion people in this world suffer from malnutrition. Half do not have enough to eat and the rest of us eat too much. — Earle Gray

The only answer to terror is an excess of democracy. — Michael Sorkin

The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess. — Menander

much of the developing world - no longer suffers from diseases of deficiency. Instead we get the diseases of excess. This — Scott Carney

The significance and influence of just one BNP councillor is far in excess of the council powers such an elected figure can, in reality, command. — Steve Blake

For the love of God, unless you're prepping for Rigoletto at the Met, go easy on the eyeliner. — Cheryl Cory

Excess in moderation: don't drink a few beers every day after work, wait 'till the end of the month and drink all the beers at once. — Doug Stanhope

...which recall(s) a moment in time when raw excess made them a casual aristocracy, apart from the rest of the world. — Andrea Lee

The world is full of people who will help you manufacture tornados in order to blow out a match. — Shaun Hick

We are rarely in danger of examining to excess, especially when the subject is the shape of our own lives. — G.K. Chesterton

The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what is essential. — Isabel Allende

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

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance. — John Henry Newman

The excess of the voluptuary, like the austerities of the recluse, triumphs in the suffrage of perverted reason. — Samuel Parr

I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things. — Albert Camus

Faced with an excess of beauty the mind can often only drink. — Jim Grimsley

Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization. — Alphonse De Lamartine

It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the tongues. — V.S. Pritchett

You can tell there's an election coming soon. People are already using the word "fundamentally" in excess. — Benjamin Kane Ethridge