excess Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about excess.
“There is moderation even in excess.”
- Disraeli, Benjamin
“Moderation is a fatal thing nothing succeeds like excess.”
- Wilde, Oscar
“Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.”
- Plutarch
“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.”
- Giacomo Casanova
“Everything in excess is opposed to nature.”
- Hippocrates
“Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.”
- Wilde, Oscar
“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