Excess

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

- William Blake Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

- Francois Voltaire Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Ask the gods nothing excessive.

- Aeschylus 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

. . . 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

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

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

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

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To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

- Confucius Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

- Oscar Wilde Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

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

To go beyond is as bad as to fall short.

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