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Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery. -- Plato
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
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not. -- Xenophon
Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness. -- Christopher Marlowe
Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess! -- Charles Dickens
Never order food in excess of your body weight. -- Erma Bombeck
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. -- William Blake
Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions. -- James Madison
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. -- John Keats
Excess weakens the spirits. -- Confucius
Excess has impaired perspective in America. -- Jen Hatmakermaker
Excess always carries it's own retributions. -- Ouida
Excess makes the heart grow fonder -- John Balance
Excess always carries its own retribution. -- Ouida
Excess makes the heart grow fonder... -- John Balance
Excess and deficiency are equally at fault. -- Confucius
Excess is the common substitute for energy. -- Marianne Moore
Poverty makes people sub-human Excess of wealth makes people inhuman -- Groucho Marx
Excess capacity in people, machines, or property will be quickly absorbed. -- Seth Klarman
Excess of everything is worst; even if it is best otherwise. -- Vikrmn
Excess is excrement, ... Excrement retained in the body is a poison. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
It's all about gold. It's all about gold, gold, gold, gold! Excess! -- Anna Dello Russo
Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow. -- Honore de Balzac
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Excess is not really something I consider a bad thing; especially when you are talking about living. -- Oscar de la Renta
Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones. -- William Penn
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
The Electroshock Novelist: The Alluring Bad Boy of Literary England Has Always Been Fascinated by Britain's Dustbin Empire. Now Martin Amis Takes On American Excess, -- Sam Tanenhaus
Excess is part of my nature. Dullness is a disease. I really need danger and excitement. I'm never scared of putting myself out on a limb. -- Freddie Mercury
Excess in moderation: don't drink a few beers every day after work, wait 'till the end of the month and drink all the beers at once. -- Doug Stanhope
Excess body fat alters the levels of the hormones insulin, leptin, and estrogen, and these factors are believed to be responsible for the acceleration of pubertal timing by obesity. -- Joel Fuhrman
A too closely watched flower/blossoms the wrong color./Excess attention to the jonquil/turns it gentian. Flowers/need it tranquil to get/their hues right. Some/only open at midnight. -- Kay Ryan
Excess of love, did ye say? There was no excess, there was defect. She loved her son too little, not too much. If she had loved him more there'd be no difficulty. -- C. S. Lewis
Excess of trouble may, for a time, distract and overwhelm the soul. Our Lord himself seems to have experienced somewhat of this. Our prayers, perhaps, are never more acceptable, than when they are offered in broken accents, in sighs, and groans. -- Charles Simeon
Heaven's Way is like stretching a bow. The high is lowered and the low is raised. Excess is reduced and deficiency is replenished. Heaven's Way reduces excess and replenishes deficiency. People's Way is not so. They reduce the deficient and supply the excessive. -- Laozi
Excess exercise tends to be counterbalanced by excess hunger, exemplified by the phrase 'working up an appetite.' A few people with extraordinary willpower can resist such hunger day after day, but for the vast majority, weight loss through exercise is a flawed option. -- Andrew Weil
Excess dietary salt is most notorious for increasing blood pressure. Americans have a 90 percent lifetime probability of developing high blood pressure - so even if your blood pressure is normal now, if you continue to eat the typical American diet, you will be at risk. -- Joel Fuhrman
As a people we practiced excess. Excess in everything - pleasure, gaud display, endless toil, and death. Vagrant children slept in the alleys. Ragpicking was a profession. A conspicuously self-satisfied class of new wealth and weak intellect was all aglitter in a setting of mass misery. -- E.L. Doctrow
As a people we practiced excess. Excess in everything - pleasure, gaudy display, endless toil, and death. Vagrant children slept in the alleys. Ragpicking was a profession. A conspicuously self-satisfied class of new wealth and weak intellect was all aglitter in a setting of mass misery. -- E.L. Doctrow
Nothing Succeeds like excess! -- Anna Dello Russo
There is moderation even in excess. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Crime is a product of social excess. -- Vladimir Lenin
Pride and excess bring disaster for man. -- Xun Zi
Everything in excess is opposed to nature. -- Hippocrates
The word 'excess' has no meaning for a male. -- Richard Dawkins
The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess. -- Menander
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. -- Oscar Wilde
It's not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess. -- John Selden
Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards. -- Neil Kinnock
Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. -- Voltaire
Use, do not abuse... neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. -- Voltaire
Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle. -- Will Durant
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. -- Charles Dickens
I never smoke to excess - that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time. -- Mark Twain
This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything. -- Jacques Delors
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later. -- Charles Caleb Colton
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating -- Jean Anouilh
If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. -- William Shakespeare
A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health. -- Clarence Day
Tough times helped many commodities producers become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost-cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up. -- Jim Rogers
The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what is essential. -- Isabel Allende
For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight. -- Aeschylus
Don't accumulate if you do not need. The excess of wealth in your hands is for the society, and you are the trustee for the same. -- Mahavira
I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace. -- Henry James
Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs. -- Victor Hugo
I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, 'I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.' -- Tallulah Bankhead
It's a bit like school camp, shooting a film. Everyone's on heat. It's a strange energy. It's full of adrenalin. I funnel my excess energy in funny little ways. I do a lot of dancing in my trailer. I love music. -- Alice Englert
Watching cold fusion is like watching water boil in slow motion. First, sufficient deuterium has to penetrate the palladium electrode. This can take a few weeks. Then, if excess heat is generated during the next month or two, accurate temperature readings require extreme precautions to exclude environmental effects. -- Charles Platt
I use the Clarisonic electronic skin cleansing system. It's great for removing excess oil and make-up and leaves my face feeling really smooth and clean. Then I apply Avon Anew Rejuvenate Day Revitalising Cream and Creme de la Mer Eye Concentrate. I think eye cream is so important - it keeps me looking young and prevents wrinkles. -- Fergie
An excess of courtesy is discourtesy -- Japanese Proverb
Everything in excess is opposed to nature -- Hippocrates
Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men -- Titus Maccius Plautus
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later -- Charles Caleb Colton
Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses -- Aristotle
Austerity causes constipation; excess, diarrhea. -- Mason Cooley
In excess altercation, truth is lost. -- Publilius Syrus
Writing means revealing oneself to excess. -- Franz Kafka
Everything in moderation, with occasional excess. -- Neil Peart
Anything in excess is a poison. -- Theodore Levitt
America is a country of excess. -- Norman Lear
The excess of pleasure is pain -- Almeida Garrett
In charity there is no excess. -- Francis Bacon
Prayer can never be in excess. -- Charles Spurgeon
Everyone became brave from excess of terror. -- Gustave Flaubert
She was brave from excess of grief -- Edith Hamilton
The sage avoids extremity, excess, and extravagance. -- Laozi
Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
Everything in excess Is opposed by nature. -- Hippocrates
Sensual excess drives out pity in man. -- Marquis de Sade
When sages commend excess, Desire is sick. -- Mason Cooley
The best things carried to excess are wrong. -- Charles Churchill
the excess of all good things is mischievous. -- Lydia M. Child
Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess. -- Edwin Land
When you've tasted excess, everything else tastes bland... -- Nikki Sixx
All is wholesome in the absence of excess. -- Moliere
Allah loves moderation and hates extravagance and excess. -- Umar
Wine in excess keeps neither secrets nor promises. -- Miguel de Cervantes
A garlic caress is stimulating. A garlic excess soporific. -- Curnonsky
I'm not lazy. I'm simply judicious about excess movement. -- Jen Lancaster
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess -- Oscar Wilde
The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess. -- Democritus
Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty. -- John Donne
Life is about balance too much excess is chaos. -- Bill Vaughan
Such excess of passion is quite out of fashion -- Edward Gorey
I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. -- Tallulah Bankhead
The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
An excess of hoarded wealth is the death of many. -- Juvenal
What we suffer from today is an excess of education. -- Adolf Hitler
African-Americans have rarely been the beneficiaries of Presidential rhetorical excess. -- Julianne Malveaux
An excess of reason is itself a form of madness -- Kim Stanley
An excess of science will leave none of us alive. -- R. A. Lafferty
So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough. -- William Shakespeare
An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem. -- Gaston Bachelard
An excess of law inescapably weakens the rule of law. -- Laurence Tribe
The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People are rightfully upset about Wall Street abuses and excess. -- Andrew Cuomo

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