It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess.
For one thing, I don't pun excessively in real life.
To be a legend, you've either got to be dead or excessively old!
Down close to certain flowers all excesses are sufficiencies
I never smoke to excess - that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.
For 'wellness', naturally is no cause of complaint--people relish it, they enjoy it, they are at the furthest pole from complaint. People complain of feeling ill--not well. Unless, as George Eliot does, they have some intimation of 'wrongness' or dan...
Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.
We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.
Never order food in excess of your body weight.
Currently computer graphics are used a great deal, but it can be excessive.
It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.
I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.
And I find perfect beauty excessively boring, don't you?
Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
One of the things that kills Buddhist spiritual life is excessive seriousness.
Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.
