Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
- Oscar WildeExcess of sorrow laughs, excess of joy weeps.
- William BlakeExcess of meats bringeth sickness
- BibleThe excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later
- Charles Caleb ColtonEverything in excess is opposed to nature.
- HippocratesAn excess of courtesy is discourtesy
- Japanese ProverbWhat fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating
- Jean Anouilh`Tis not the eating, nor `tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess
- John SeldenNever go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
- Marcus Tullius CiceroExcess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
- Plato