Quotes of Excess - somelinesforyou

“ Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principles. ”

- William J. Durant

“ The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom. ”

- Sir William Blake

“ Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self. ”

- Blum Ralph

“ A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble. ”

- Thomas Brackett Reed

“ Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ If time be of all things most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough always proves little enough. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away. ”

- Calvin Trillin

“ Excess of sorrow laughs, Excess of joy weeps. ”

- Sir William Blake

“ The best things carried to excess are wrong. ”

- Charles Churchill

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

- Cicero

“ Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. ”

- W. Somerset Maugham

“ Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses. ”

- George F. Will

“ The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses. ”

- George F. Will

“ Even moderation ought not to be practiced to excess. ”

- Unknown

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

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ Everything in excess is opposed to nature. Doing nothing is sometimes a good remedy. ”

- Hippocrates

“ Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments. ”

- Plato

“ It's not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess. ”

- John Selden

“ Nothing in excess. ”

- Unknown

“ The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later. ”

- Charles Caleb Colton

“ Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess! ”

- Charles Dickens

“ We pay when old for the excesses of youth. ”

- Unknown

“ Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense. ”

- Phaedrus

“ The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. ”

- Sir William Blake

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

- Christian Nestell Bovee

“ Crime is a product of social excess. ”

- Vladimir Lenin

“ Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. ”

- Henry David Thoreau
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