Excess quotes

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◆ Most of us try to do too much because we are secretly afraid we will not be able to do anything at all.

- Rick Aster100

◆ No one will deny that the excessive use of alcohol and alcoholic beverages would do more than any other single factor to make impossible a total war effort.

- William Lyon Mackenzie King99

◆ The best things carried to excess are wrong.

- Charles Churchill99

◆ It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.

- Richard Le Gallienne99

◆ Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

- Antisthenes99

◆ The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

- Francis Bacon99

◆ What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating.

- Jean Anouilh99

◆ Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not

- Xenophon99

◆ Never order food in excess of your body weight.

- Erma Bombeck99

◆ The desire for power in excess caused angels to fall; the desire for knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but in charity is no excess, neither can man or angels come into danger by it

- Francis Bacon Sr99

◆ A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

- Clarence Day99

◆ When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy

- Salman Rushdie99

◆ Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess

- Walter Savage Landor99

◆ Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess.

- Bill Watterson99

◆ The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever

- Mignon McLaughlin99