Excess Quotes

You're in a mess, and in excess.

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.

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

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

Never order food in excess of your body weight.

All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects.

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

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

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

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

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

Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

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

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

The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.