Famous Quotes
149 Quotations with Excess.
- 21. Cornelius Tacitus: There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
- 22. Sir Francis Bacon: In charity there is no excess.
- 23. Christopher Marlowe: Who hateth me but for my happiness? ...
- 24. Oscar Wilde: When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses ot ...
- 25. Michelangelo: The idea is there, locked inside, and all you have to do is remove the excess st ...
- 26. Jane Austen: I am excessively fond of music, but without the smallest skill or right of judgi ...
- 27. Ralph Waldo Emerson: The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
- 28. Oscar Wilde: Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
- 29. Aristotle: They [young people] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by ...
- 30. Samuel Johnson: A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: ...
- 31. Victor Hugo: A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may i ...
- 32. Henry David Thoreau: After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. T ...
- 33. Charles Baudelaire: Alas, human vices, however horrible one might imagine them to be, contain the pr ...
- 34. John Churton Collins: All excess brings on its own punishments.
- 35. George F. Will: Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American ...
- 36. Norman Mailer: As many people die from an excess of timidity as from bravery.
- 37. Aeschylus: Ask the gods nothing excessive.
- 38. John Stuart Mill: But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which ...
- 39. Horace: Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
- 40. James Baldwin: Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and th ...