| "In charity there is no excess." »Francis Bacon |
| "Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide." »Cicero |
| "The best things carried to excess are wrong." »Charles Churchill |
| "The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand." »Josh Billings |
| "Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| "Use, do not abuse neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy." »Voltaire |
| "When love is in excess it brings a man nor honor nor any worthiness." »Euripides |
| "excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit." »W. Somerset Maugham |
| "Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness." »Percy Wynham Lewis |
| "Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance." »John Keats |
| "Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort." »Charles Dickens |
| "If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea." »Richard Hofstadter |
| "In battling evil, excess is good for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people's wrath." »Kahlil Gibran |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
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