Excess Quotes

Too much of a good thing is wonderful. Mae West

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. Oscar Wilde

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. William Blake

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

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

The best things carried to excess are wrong. Charles Churchill

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later. Charles Caleb Colton

Clogged with yesterday’s excess, the body drags the mind down with it. Horace.

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

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. James Agee