Famous Quotes
149 Quotations with Excess.
- 41. Plutarch: Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness; one of which is a lack, t ...
- 42. Author Unknown: Even moderation ought not to be practiced to excess.
- 43. William J. Durant: Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principles.
- 44. Publilius Syrus: Every one excels in something in which another fails. In excessive argument, tru ...
- 45. Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, whi ...
- 46. Hippocrates: Everything in excess is opposed to nature. Doing nothing is sometimes a good rem ...
- 47. Plato: Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite directio ...
- 48. Aeschylus: Excessive fear is always powerless.
- 49. Francois de La Rochefoucauld: Excessive hurriedness to fulfill an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
- 50. William Blake: Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
- 51. Friedrich Nietzsche: Excessive virtue can bring a nation to ruin just as much as excessive vice.
- 52. Samuel Butler: For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure -- tangible material prosperity i ...
- 53. Author Unknown: Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities and the fountain of all our diseas ...
- 54. Samuel Johnson: Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which t ...
- 55. Terence: I consider it a principle rule of life not to be excessive in anything. It is gr ...
- 56. George Eliot: I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
- 57. Margaret Witter Fuller: I have urged on woman independence of man, not that I do not think the sexes mut ...
- 58. Arthur Schopenhauer: If we were not all so excessively interested in ourselves, life would be so unin ...
- 59. Francis Bacon: In charity there is no excess.
- 60. Author Unknown: In full view of his television audience, he preached a new religion -- or a new ...