Excess

Ask the gods nothing excessive.

- Aeschylus Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

- Francois Voltaire Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

- William Blake Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

They never taste who always drink They always talk who never think.

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To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

- Confucius Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent but there is talent in the tongues.

- V. S. Pritchett Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

- Oscar Wilde Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

. . . certain it is that minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort, and like them, are often successfully cured by remedies in themselves very nauseous and unpalatable.

- Charles Dickens Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

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

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To go beyond is as bad as to fall short.

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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

- William Somerset Maugham Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.

- William Shakespeare Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.

- William Shakespeare Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes