(420 quotes found)
“A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.”
Clarence Day
“Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping-or attaches the name of St. Patrick to the day of the year that bartenders fear most.”
Jon Anderson
“Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.”
Phaedrus
“My advice to girls: first, don't smoke to excess; second, don't drink to excess; third, don't marry to excess.”
Mark Twain
“Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away.”
Calvin Trillin
“Excess of sorrow laughs, excess of joy weeps.”
William Blake
“Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.”
Christian Nevell Bovee
“We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society of excrescence. The boil is growing out of control, recklessly at cross purposes with itself, its impacts multiplying as the causes disintegrate.”
Jean Baudrillard
“The best things carried to excess are wrong.”
Charles Churchill
“Nothing, in excess.”
Greek proverb
