excess quotes

There is moderation even in excess.

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.

We have too many cellphones. We’ve got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

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

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

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

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.