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
Robert Redford 
Honore De Balzac 
Bing Crosby 
Marcus Tullius Cicero 
Christian Nestell Bovee 
Henry James 
W. Somerset Maugham 
Plato All Excess Quotes
All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects.
James Young Simpson 
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This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess.
Terence
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The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.
J. William Fulbright
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I've seen disgusting excess in business, and I've seen disgusting excess in Washington. But at the same time, I've certainly learned that Washington matters and that you can't ignore it, especially when you get into telecom.
Esther Dyson
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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
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I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.
Robert Morgan
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This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything.
Jacques Delors
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Francois de La RochefoucauldMason CooleyOscar WildeLucius Annaeus SenecaMarcus Tullius Cicero VoltaireBenjamin Disraeli Plato HoraceHonore De Balzac AeschylusCharles Caleb ColtonW. Somerset MaughamJosh BillingsWilliam Blake
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