EXCESS

Related Subjects: Dissipation, Exaggeration, Extravagance, Extremes, Gluttony, Moderation, Prodigality, Waste

1. The desire of power in excess caused angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but in charity is no excess, neither can man or angels come into danger by it.—BACON
   

2. All excess brings on its own punishment, even here. By certain fixed, settled, and established laws of Him who is the God of nature, excess of every kind destroys that constitution which temperance would preserve. The debauchee offers up his body a living sacrifice to sin.—C. C. COLTON
   

3. Nor too much wealth nor wit come to thee,
   So much of either may undo thee.—BISHOP CORBET
   

4. There can be no excess to love, to knowledge, to beauty, when these attributes are considered in the purest sense.—EMERSON
   

5. The best things beyond their measure cloy.—HOMER, Iliad
   

6. Too much noise deafens us; too much light blinds us; too great a distance, or too much of proximity equally prevents us from being able to see; too long or too short a discourse obscures our knowledge of a subject; too much of truth stuns us.—PASCAL
   

7. Excess generally causes reaction and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in government.—PLATO

8. Too much is stark naught.—Proverb
   

9. Too much is a vanity; enough is a feast.—FRANCIS QUARLES
   

10. 'Tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess.—JOHN SELDEN, Table Talk
    

11. Can one desire too much of a good thing?—SHAKESPEARE, As You Like It
    

12. To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
    To throw a perfume on the violet
    To smooth the ice, or add another hue
    Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light
    To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,
    Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.—SHAKESPEARE, King John
    

13. They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.—SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice