Top Excess Quotes
Crime is a product of social excess.
Vladimir Lenin
The best things carried to excess are wrong.
Charles Churchill
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it's too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective - your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else.
Sean Bean
In every aspect of life, including the economic dimension, we are always challenged to do the right thing. In many cases in the market system, which allows a great deal of latitude for human choice, people can get carried away to excess.
Lee R. Raymond
James Young Simpson 
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Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
Horace 
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We never search for scandal, but we use it if it cries out to excess.
Peter Utley
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This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess.
Terence
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It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or that any embarrassment which might arise would be from excess of material. I find this, however, far from being the case.
James Payn
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Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
John Henry Newman
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
Honore De Balzac
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