Excess of delight
Palls appetite. [ Proverb ]
Let there be no excess. [ Motto ]
Too much of a good thing. [ William Shakespeare ]
Excess weakens the spirits. [ Confucius ]
Excess of power intoxicates. [ Mme. de Remusat ]
Blasted with excess of light. [ Gray ]
Pity is love when grown into excess. [ Sir R. Howard ]
Allow not nature more than nature needs. [ William Shakespeare ]
Goodness admits of no excess, but error. [ Bacon ]
Excess of obligations may lose a friend. [ Proverb ]
Every morsel to a satisfied hunger
Is only a new labor to a tired digestion. [ South ]
All is wholesome in the absence of excess. [ Moliere ]
Excess always carries its own retribution. [ Ouida ]
A surfeit or the sweetest things
The deepest loathing to the stomach brings. [ William Shakespeare ]
The ass bears the load, but not the overload. [ Cervantes ]
The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses! [ Joubert ]
Love, like men, dies oftener of excess than hunger. [ Jean Paul ]
Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization. [ Lamartine ]
Things will never be bettered by an excess of haste. [ Proverb ]
Avarice is only prudence and economy pushed to excess. [ Cbattield ]
The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall. [ Bacon ]
A servant never yet miscarried through excess of respect. [ Proverb ]
Moderation is a fatal thing; nothing succeeds like excess. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it. [ William Shakespeare ]
Excess and violence are the greatest outrages against liberty. [ Villemain ]
Let pleasure be ever so innocent, the excess is always criminal. [ St Evremond ]
Every inordinate cup is unblessed, and the ingredient is a devil. [ William Shakespeare ]
There is no better excess in the world than the excess of gratitude. [ La Bruyere ]
Let us teach ourselves that honorable step, not to outdo discretion. [ William Shakespeare ]
Youth and Will may resist excess, but Nature takes revenge in silence. [ A. de Musset ]
Use, do not abuse: neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. [ Voltaire ]
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, is wasteful and ridiculous excess. [ William Shakespeare ]
They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing. [ William Shakespeare ]
In everything the middle course is best; all things in excess bring trouble. [ Plautus ]
For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended. [ Euripides ]
The miser is like a lover the excess of whose passion bars the enjoyment of it. [ French ]
A genius is one who is endowed with an excess of nervous energy and sensibility. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men. [ Plautus ]
We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink. [ Cicero ]
As surfeit is the father of much fast, so every scope by the immoderate use turns to restraint. [ William Shakespeare ]
Motives by excess reverse their very nature, and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind. [ Coleridge ]
Witticisms please as long as we keep them within bounds, but pushed to excess they cause offence. [ Phaedr ]
Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect. [ Zoroaster ]
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. [ Bovee ]
Most persons are disposed to expend more than they can afford, and to indulge more than they can endure. [ Mme. de Puisieux ]
Excess of grief for the deceased is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not. [ Xenophon ]
Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess. [ Jeremy Collier ]
The eye that gazes upon the sun sees not the orb it looks upon, confounded by the excess of its brightness. [ Metastasio ]
Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable. [ Joubert ]
The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable with interest, about thirty years after date. [ Colton ]
Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked one. [ William Penn ]
Violent delights have violent ends, and in their triumph die; like fire and powder, which as they kiss consume. [ William Shakespeare ]
The excess of the voluptuary, like the austerities of the recluse, triumphs in the suffrage of perverted reason. [ Dr. Parr ]
If music be the food of love, play on, give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die. [ William Shakespeare ]
There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty, when these attributes are considered in the purest sense. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless. [ Boiste ]
Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings. [ Addison ]
Too great carelessness, equally with excess in dress, multiplies the wrinkles of old age, and makes its decay still more conspicuous. [ Bruyere ]
In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure. [ Chapin ]
The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we bad been endowed with. [ Horace ]
A certain tendency to insanity has always attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if they had been blasted with excess of light.
[ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette: it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men, and coquetry in women. [ Robert Adam ]
Truth, like the juice of a poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in its excess. [ Landor ]
In all the world there is no vice Less prone to excess than avarice; It neither cares for food nor clothing; Nature's content with little - that with nothing. [ Butler ]
Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious, if unmixed, and to carry the danger to the edge of ruin, nature causes each man's peculiarity to superabound. [ Emerson ]
The misfortune is that when man has found honey, he enters upon the feast with an appetite so voracious that he usually destroys his own delight by excess and satiety. [ Knox ]
We feel neither extreme heat nor extreme cold; qualities that are in excess are so much at variance with our feelings that they are impalpable: we do not feel them, though we suffer from their effects. [ Pascal ]
Resentment is, in every stage of the passion, painful, but it is not disagreeable, unless in excess; pity is always painful, yet always agreeable; vanity, on the contrary, is always pleasant, yet always disagreeable. [ Horne ]
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. [ William Shakespeare ]
Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities, and the fountain of all our diseases. As a lamp is choked by a superabundance of oil, a fire extinguished by excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by intemperate diet. [ Burton ]
Of all faults the greatest is the excess of impious terror, dishonoring divine grace. He who despairs wants love, wants faith; for faith, hope, and love are three torches which blend their light together, nor does the one shine without the other. [ Metastasio ]
All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such excess that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art. [ Emerson ]
First, girls, don't smoke--that is, don't smoke to excess. I am seventy-three and a half years old, and have been smoking seventy-three of them. But I never smoke to excess - that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time. Second, don't drink - that is, don't drink to excess. Third, don't marry - I mean, to excess. [ Mark Twain, "Advice To Girls", 1909 ]
I would rather have a young fellow too much than too little dressed; the excess on that side will wear off, with a little age and reflection; but if he is negligent at twenty, he will be a sloven at forty, and stink at fifty years old. Dress yourself fine where others are fine, and plain where others are plain; but take care always that your clothes are well made and fit you, for otherwise they will give you a very awkward air. [ Chesterfield ]