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I can't imagine why anyone would need both a lounge chair AND an alcoholic beverage
All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
If we’re to avoid becoming fiction robots in a corporate world, we must stop adding to our educational excesses, eschew the assembly line of MFAs and bottom-line publishing houses, commit ourselves to a way of writing that engages in a valiant struggle to push the limits of plot and language so as to awaken, not anaesthetize, the reader.
An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, 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.
The path of excess leads to the tower of wisdom.
Success is not access to excess
He pass'd the flaming bounds of place and time: The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze, He saw; but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night.
I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, 'I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.'
Well: the day is a poem but too much Like one of Jeffers's, crusted with blood and barbaric omens Painful to excess, inhuman as a hawk's cry.
Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.
The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition - and perchance to some excess - I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.
It is such a great fault to talk too much that, in business and conversation, if what is good is also brief, it is doubly good, and one gains by brevity what one often loses by an excess of words.
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd.
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.
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite and temperance prevents from indulging to excess.
Write on your doors the saying wise and old. "Be bold!" and everywhere - "Be bold; Be not too bold!" Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.
The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.
Your body is the baggage you must carry through life. The more excess baggage, the shorter the trip.
EXCESS, n. In morals, an indulgence that enforces by appropriate penalties the law of moderation.
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