What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.
Francis Bacon
When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.
Euripides
Rock 'n Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility and manipulation, moments of unbelievable clarity and invention, pleasure, fun, vulgarity, excess, novelty and utter enervation.
Greil Marcus
An excess of courtesy is discourtesy.
Japanese Proverb
Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
Plato
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Oscar Wilde
In everything the middle course is best: All things in excess bring trouble to men.
Titus Maccius Plautus
O son of Adam, if you have collected anything in excess of your actual need, you will act only as its trustee for someone else to use it.
Ali bin Abu-Talib
For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended.
Euripides
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
William Blake
The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom...for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough.
William Blake
Your body is the baggage you must carry through life. The more excess the baggage, the shorter the trip.
Arnold H. Glasgow
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca