(417 quotes found)
“Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.”
Oscar Wilde
“If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken and so die.”
William Shakespeare
“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
“In charity there is no excess.”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.”
“In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people's wrath.”
Kahlil Gibran
“Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not”
Xenophon
“Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.”
William Somerset Maugham
“The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom...for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough.”
William Blake
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