Excess quotes

Discover insightful quotes on excess and its consequences. Explore the drawbacks of overindulgence and the importance of moderation in life through thought-provoking words from various authors and philosophers.

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

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

- Honore De Balzac

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

- Oscar Wilde

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.

- John C. Ransom

You're in a mess, and in excess.

- Billy Strayhorn

Tough times helped many commodities producers become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost-cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up.

- Jim Rogers

Nothing exceeds like excess.

- Al Jourgensen

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

- Jean Anouilh

There is moderation even in excess.

- Benjamin Disraeli

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

- Peter Utley

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

- Xenophon

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

- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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

- Plato

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

- Terence

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

- Christian Nestell Bovee

Sensual excess drives out pity in man.

- Marquis de Sade

I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me.

- Martina Hingis

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

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge