The best things carried to excess are wrong.
Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
It is almost certain that excess in eating is the cause of almost all the diseases of the body, but its effects on the soul are even more disastrous.
Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough.
One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
That the American, by temperament, worked to excess, was true; work and whiskey were his stimulants; work was a form of vice; but he never cared much for money or power after he earned them.
The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.
As frost, raised to its utmost intensity, produces the sensation of fire, so any good quality, overwrought and pushed to excess, turns into its own contrary.
There are, then, three states of mind. . . two vices--that of excess, and that of defect; and one virtue--the mean; and all these are in a certain sense opposed to one another; for the extremes are not only opposed to the mean, but also to one another; and the mean is opposed to the extremes.
Few people realize how badly they write. Nobody has shown them how much excess or murkiness has crept into their style.
Just as modern man consumes both too many calories and calories of no nutritional value, information workers eat data both in excess and from the wrong sources.
Bubbles are best identified by credit excesses, not valuation excesses. And there's no bigger credit excess than in China.
An excess of science will leave none of us alive.
The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today.
I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.
This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything.
The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess.
Austerity causes constipation; excess, diarrhea.